Hill Air Force Base Part of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
Hill AFB, Utah, 4 October 1997
Location of Hill Air Force Base
IATA: HIF – ICAO: KHIF
Summary
Airport type		Military
Operator		United States Air Force
Location		Ogden, Utah
Elevation AMSL		4,789 ft / 1,459.7 m
Coordinates		41°07′26″N 111°58′22″W / 41.12389°N 111.97278°W / 41.12389; -111.97278
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
14/32	13,508	4,117	PEM

The F-16A Fighting Falcon is used in missions from Hill Air Force Base.

Hill Air Force Base (IATA: HIF, ICAO: KHIF) is a major U.S. Air Force Base located in northern Utah, just south of the city of Ogden, and near the towns of Clearfield, Riverdale, Roy, Sunset, and Layton. It is about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. The base was named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who died test-flying a prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. In this decade Hill A.F.B. is still the sixth-largest employer in the state of Utah, and the third-largest one excluding the State Government and Higher Education employers. Hill A.F.B. is the home of the Air Force Materiel Command's (AFMC) Ogden Air Logistics Center which is the worldwide manager for a wide range of aircraft, engines, missiles, software, avionics, and accessories components. The commander of the Air Logistics Center is currently Major General Andrew E. Busch. The Ogden Air Logistics Center is one of the three U.S.A.F.'s Air Logistics Center, with the others being the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, and the Warner-Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins AFB, Georgia.

The host unit at Hill A.F.B. is the Air Force Material Command's 75th Air Base Wing, which provides services and support for the Ogden Air Logistics Center and its subordinate organizations. The Wing and Installation Commander of Hill Air Force Base is presently Colonel Patrick Higby. Additional tenant units at Hill A.F.B. include operational fighter wings of the Air Combat Command (ACC) and the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC).

Units

Main Units

• Ogden Air Logistics Center
  Provides worldwide engineering and logistics management for the F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt II, and Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.
• 75th Air Base Wing
  Responsible for the base operating support of all units at Hill A.F.B. The 75th A.B.W. provides base operating support for the Ogden Air Logistics Center, the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings, the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing, the 309th Maintenance Wing, the 508th Aerospace Sustainment Wing, and 25 subordinate units.
  • 75th Civil Engineering Group
  • 75th Medical Group
  • 75th Mission Support Group
• 84th Combat Sustainment Wing
• 309th Maintenance Wing
• 508th Aerospace Sustainment Wing
• 526th ICBM Systems Wing

Tenant Units

• 388th Fighter Wing of the Air Combat Command
  • 4th Fighter Squadron
  • 666th Security Forces
  • 34th Fighter Squadron
  • 421st Fighter Squadron
  • 729th Air Control Squadron
  • 388th Range Squadron
  • 388th Operations Support Squadron
  • 388th Maintenance Group
• 419th Fighter Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command
  • 419th Operations Group
    • 466th Fighter Squadron
    • 419th Operations Support Flight
  • 419th Maintenance Group

Utah Test and Training Range

The Utah Test and Training Range is one of the only live-fire U.S. Air Force training ranges within the United States. It is located in far western Utah, close to the Nevada border, and it extends both north and south of Interstate Highway 80, with several miles of separation on each side of the Interstate Highway. The portion of the bombing range that lies north of Interstate 80 is also west of the Great Salt Lake. The Utah Test and Training Range lies in Tooele County, and the land is owned by the state of Utah, but the use of the airspace and training exercises are scheduled by Hill A.F.B.

On September 8, 2004, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Genesis space probe crash-landed on the nearby U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, as planned.

Hill AFB Image Gallery

History

Hill Air Force Base is named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill (1894–1935), the Chief of the Flying Branch of the U.S. Army Air Corps Material Division of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Major Hill had died as a result of injuries he received from the crash of the Boeing Aircraft Company's experimental aircraft Boeing Model 299 at Wright Field, the prototype airplane for what became the famous B-17 Flying Fortress.

Major Commands

• Materiel Div, Office of Chief of the Air Corps, 1 December 1939 – 11 December 1941
• Air Service Comd, 11 December 1941 – 17 July 1944
• AAF Materiel and Services, 17 July 1944 – 31 August 1944
• AAF Technical Service Comd, 31 August 1944 – 1 July 1945
• Air Technical Service Comd, 1 July 1945 – 9 March 1946
• Air Materiel Comd, 9 March 1946 – 1 April 1961
• Air Force Logistics Command, 1 April 1961 – 1 June 1992
• Air Force Materiel Command 1 June 1992 – present

Hangar at Hill Air Force Base.

Base operating units

• Ogden Air Depot, 7 November 1940 – 8 April 1942
• 9th Station Complement, 8 April 1942 – 2 January 1943
• 482d Base HQ and Air Base Sq, 2 January 1943 – 1 April 1944
• 4135th AAF Base Unit, 1 April 1944 – 26 September 1947
• 4135th AF Base Unit, 26 September 1947 – 27 August 1948
• HQ and HQ Sq, Ogden AMA, 27 August 1948 – 4 May 1950
• 25th Air Base Gp, 4 May 1950 – 1 May 1953
• 2849th Air Base Wg, 1 May 1953 – 8 July 1964
• 2849th Air Base Gp, 8 July 1964–1994
• 75th Air Base Wing 1994 – present

Operational history

Hill Air Force Base traces its origins back to the ill-fated U.S. Army's Air Mail "experiment" of 1934, when the idea originated for a permanent air depot in the Salt Lake City area. In the following years, the Army Air Corps surveyed the region for a suitable location for the permanent western terminus of the air mail. Several sites in Utah were considered, and the present site near Ogden emerged as the clear favorite.

In July 1939, Congress appropriated $8.0 million for the establishment and construction of the Ogden Air Depot. Hill Field officially opened on 7 November 1940, and with the outbreak of war for the United States in December 1941, it soon became a key maintenance and supply base of World War II, with a peak of 22,000 military and civilian workers in 1943.

During World War II, Hill Field was an important maintenance and supply base, with round-the-clock operations geared to supporting the war effort. Battle weary warplanes like the A-26, B-17, B-24, B-29, P-40, P-47, P-61, and others depended on the men and women of Hill Field for structural repairs, engine overhauls, and spare parts. The peak wartime employment at Hill Field was reached in 1943 with a total of just over 22,000 military and civilian personnel. These dedicated men and women rehabilitated and returned thousands of warplanes to combat.

A retired U.S.A.F. double-rotor helicopter at the Hill Air Force Base Museum.

Starting in 1944, Hill Field became responsible for the long-term storage of surplus aircraft and their support equipment, including outmoded P-40 Tomahawks and P-40 Warhawks which had been removed from combat service and replaced by newer and better warplanes. Also ending up at Hill Field over the approaching years were warplanes like the P-47 Thunderbolt, the B-24 Liberator, the B-29 Superfortress, and many other types of airplanes were prepared for storange and stored at this air base over the course of the 1940s and 1950s.

Hill Field became the Hill Air Force Base on 5 February 1948, following the transition of the new U.S. Air Force away from the Army and the United States Army Air Force, into an independent service, as called for by the National Security Act of 1947. This transition actually took place in October 1947, but it took many months to fully implement.

During the Korean War, Hill A.F.B. was assigned a major share of the Air Materiel Command's logistical effort to support the combat in Korea. Hill A.F.B. personnel quickly removed needed warplanes from storage, renovated them, and added them to active-service U.S.A.F. flying squadrons.

Then during the 1960s, Hill A.F.B. began to perform the maintenance support for various kinds of jet warplanes, mainly the F-4 Phantom II during the Vietnam War, and then afterwards, the more modern F-16 Fighting Falcons, A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, and C-130 Hercules, and also air combat missile systems and air-to-ground rockets. Hill A.F.B. continues to carry out these tasks to the present day.

Hill A.F.B. has also housed the 30-acre Hill Aerospace Museum since 1981. This contains more than 80 former U.S.A.F. airplanes and helicopters.

Location & QuickFacts

Owner & Manager

Airport Operations and Facilities

Airport Services

Runway Information

Runway 14/32

Radio Navigation Aids

Remarks

• SERVICE LGT: PAPI RRP AND ILS RPI NOT COINCIDENTAL. TALLEST LGT ON RWY 32 ODAL 31' AGL.
• CAUTION: HVY AIRLINE AND CIV TFC ON APCH AND DEP. STRICT ADHERENCE TO ATC ALT AND HDG MANDATORY. EXP TURBULENCE APCH AND LDG RWY 14 DUR MED TO HI SFC WINDS. WIND VELOCITY MAY VARY FR APCH TO DEP END OF RWY.
• CAUTION: DO NOT MISTAKE OGDEN ARPT 4.5 NM N FOR HILL AFB. ACFT DEP SHOULD NOT EXCEED 6300' TIL PAST DEP END OF RWY TO AVOID OVERHEAD TFC PAT.
• TFC PAT: RECTANGULAR 6300', OVERHEAD 6800', MAINT 6800' TIL TURNING BASE LEG. USAF (AF, ANG, AFRC, AETC) FTR ACFT EXP REDUCED RWY SEPARATION DAY, VFR-3000' BTN SIMILAR ACFT, 6000' BTN DISSIMILAR ACFT. VARIATIONS EXIST FOR DIFFERENT TYPE OPR.
• TFC PAT: TRAN FTR ACFT MUST NOTIFY TWR ON INITIAL CTC IF REDUCED RWY SEPARATION IS NOT DESIRED.
• NS ABTMT: STRICT ADHERENCE TO NS ABTMT RQR. TRAN ACFT RSTD TO STR-IN FULL STOP ONLY BTW 0500-1300Z++ DAILY.
• CSTMS/AG/IMG: CSTMS/IMG AVBL TO ACC AND AMC FLT.
• REMARKS-MISC: OBSN/FCST AVBL 1200Z++ MON-2300Z++ FRI, CLSD WKEND CTC HILL AFB WX DSN 777-2018. FIRST 1500' RWY 14 AND FIRST 1500' RWY 32 CONCRETE.
• BEARING STRENGTH RWY 14-32: ST175
• CAUTION: PARACHUTE OPS E OF OGDAN ARPT, 4 MILES N OF HIF 1 MILE E OF FINAL.
• A-GEAR: BAK-12B DEP END ACTIVE RWY IN RAISED POSN, 15 MIN (30 MIN NON-DUTY HR) PN RQR TO ERECT ON APCH END OF ACT RWY. BAK-12B/14 O/R FR TWR.
• TY D EAST OF THE RY IS CLSD TO ALL ACFT.
• UTTR OPS SEE CLOVER CONTROL. OBSN/FCST AVBL MON-THURS 1200-0400Z++ FRI 1200-0200Z++ CTC HILL AFB WX DSN 777-2018.
• COMMUNICATIONS-PMSV METRO REMARKS:AVBL 1200Z++ MON - 2300Z++ FRI, CLSD WKEND. CEILINGS AND VISIBILITY ARE FREQUENTLY LOWER ON THE NORTH END OF THE RUNWAY.
• JASU: 4(MA-1A) 7(A/M32A-86) 5(AM32A-60).
• FUEL: J8.
• FLUID: SP PRESAIR LHOX LOX DE-ICE OIL -O-128-133-148-156; JOAP-4 HR PN RQR DSN 777-1861.
• TRAN ALERT: DE-ICING AVBL ALL ACFT. LTD FLEET SVC AVBL (LAVATORY ONLY) 24 HR PN.
• SEE FLIP AP/1 SUPPLEMENTARY ARPT RMK.
• RSTD - PPR ALL ACFT CTC BASE OPS DSN 777-1861,C801-777-1861. LIFEGUARD/MEDEVAC/SAR/MSN ESSENTIAL ACFT CTC BASE OPS DSN 777-1861, C801-777-1861 FAX EXTN 2221 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PRIOR TO ARR TO ENSURE COORD WILL BE COMPLETED.
• RSTD: VIP ACFT CTC PTD 30 MIN PRIOR TO ETA WITH FIRM BLOCK TIME.

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General Info
Country	United States
State	UTAH
FAA ID	HIF
Latitude	41-07-24.798N
Longitude	111-58-22.789W
Elevation	4789 feet
Near City	OGDEN

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