Nellis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West
An aerial view of Nellis AFB taken in 2014
The Las Vegas Army Airfield had three runways in 1942, the year Tonopah Army Airfield opened in August (the Tonopah Bombing Range had been divided in 1941 into the Tonopah and Las Vegas General Ranges).
3595th PTW F-51D c. 1950 at a Nellis hangar
Fighter Weapons School F-80As c. 1950 in front of Frenchman Mountain, which is east of the valley
Area 51 is a highly classified United States Air Force facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range in southern Nevada, 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas.
Nellis Air Force Base
…2003). It is said to be under attack from the machines. In the television series Stargate SG-1, Nellis Air Force Base is home to the top secret facility Area 51, where alien technologies are studied. The base is mentioned and features as the base from which the drone pilots operate from in the 2024 film Land…
Area 51 viewed from distant Tikaboo Peak
"The Ranch" with U-2 flight line ca. 1957
A 1966 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) diagram of Area 51, found in an untitled, declassified paper, showing the runway overrun for OXCART (Lockheed A-12) and the turnaround areas (CIA / CREST RDP90b00184r000100040001-4)
An A-12 (60-6924) takes off from Groom Lake during one of the first test flights, piloted by Louis Schalk, 26 April 1962.