Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base

Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base
Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base
Houston, Texas in the United States of America
	The entrance to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in 2012, with the Space Shuttle Endeavour arriving in the background
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Coordinates	29°36′26″N 095°09′32″W
Type	Joint Reserve Base
Site information
Owner	Department of Defense
Operator	US Air Force (USAF)
Controlled by	Texas Air National Guard
Condition	Operational
Website	Official website
Site history
Built	1917 (as Ellington Field)
In use	1917 – present
Garrison information
Garrison	147th Attack Wing (TX Air National Guard); 75th Innovation Command (Army); Reserve Center Houston (Navy); 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines; Coast Guard Air Station Houston;
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: EFD, ICAO: KEFD, FAA LID: EFD, WMO: 722436
Elevation	10 metres (33 ft) AMSL
Runways
17R/35L	2,743.5 metres (9,001 ft) Concrete
4/22	2,438.7 metres (8,001 ft) Concrete
17L/35R	1,404.8 metres (4,609 ft) Concrete
	Airfield shared with Ellington Airport; Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base is a joint installation shared by various active component and reserve component military units, as well as aircraft flight operations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the aegis of the nearby Johnson Space Center. The host wing for the installation is the Texas Air National Guard's 147th Attack Wing (147 ATKW). Opened in 1917, Ellington Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I. It is named for First Lieutenant Eric Ellington, a U.S. Army aviator who was killed in a plane crash in San Diego, California in 1913.

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