Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW, FAA LID: EDW) is a United States Air Force installation in California. Most of the base sits in Kern County, but its eastern end is in San Bernardino County and a southern arm is in Los Angeles County. The hub of the base is Edwards, California. Established in the 1930s as Muroc Field, the facility was renamed Muroc Army Airfield and then Muroc Air Force Base before its final renaming in 1950 for World War II USAAF veteran and test pilot Capt. Glen Edwards.[3]
Edwards is the home of the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. It is the Air Force Materiel Command center for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluating aerospace systems from concept to combat. It also hosts many test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry.
Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1,[4] test flights of the North American X-15,[4] the first landings of the Space Shuttle,[5] and the 1986 around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager.
^FAA Airport Form 5010 for EDW PDF
^FAA Airport Form 5010 for 9L2 PDF
^Wells, Helen T.; Whiteley, Susan H.; Karegeannes, Carrie E. (1976). "Origins of NASA Names: VI—NASA INSTALLATIONS". www.hq.nasa.gov. Scientific and Technical Information Office National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 6 August 2021. Muroc Air Force Base itself became Edwards Air Force Base after February 1950.
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