Beale Air Force Base
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| Beale AFB is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft base. Located in the Sacramento Valley, it is home to the only stateside reconnaissance wing, which recently flew the SR-71 Blackbird and still flies the nation's fleet of U2 spy planes. Beale is also one of four U.S. locations for the Phased Array Warning System, a unique radar system housed in a large pyramidal building. Also called PAVE-PAWS, the system tracks airborne and space-borne objects over the Pacific Ocean (there is a similar PAVE-PAWS on Cape Cod that looks out over the Atlantic). The base covers 23,000 acres and employs around 4,000 people. |
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40 miles N of Sacramento, 6 miles E of Marysville
(POINT(-121.3955783844 39.137317108729))
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Beale AFB CA, 95903
Yuba County |
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| Randy L. Mitchell Chief, Community Relations Public Affairs: (916) 634-2137 |
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| Museum on Base. |
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http://www.beale.af.mil/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/beale.htm
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