Beale Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: BAB, ICAO: KBAB, FAA LID: BAB) is a United States Air Force base in California. It is outside Linda, about 10 miles (16 km) east of the towns of Marysville and Yuba City, and about 40 miles (64 km) north of Sacramento.
An RQ-4 Global Hawk taxies on the flight-line as a U-2 Dragon Lady makes its final approach at Beale Air Force Base during 2013.
Main gate sign
Colonel Geoffrey I. Church, current commander of Beale Air Force Base, in May 2023
The remnants of a World War II German POW camp at Beale AFB. This cell block was used for isolation detention.
The 9th Reconnaissance Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command and Sixteenth Air Force. It is stationed at Beale Air Force Base, California. The wing is also the host unit at Beale.
B-29 in flight
B-47B using JATO bottles to reduce takeoff distance in 1954
Launch of a Titan I ICBM from Cape Canaveral
Emblem of the 4200th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing