Travis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force air field in the Central Valley of California, near Fairfield, CA. Called the “Gateway to the Pacific”, Travis handles more cargo and passengers than any other military air terminal in the United States.
The base’s host unit, the 60th Air Mobility Wing, is the largest wing in the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, with a versatile fleet of 37 C-5 Galaxies and 27 KC-10 Extenders.
TravisAFB is named in honor of Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, who was killed in a B-29 crash at the installation on 5 August 1950.
Although today Travis is the home of the largest airlift organization in the Air Force, it began as an isolated airstrip with a few tar paper shacks set in the middle of a wind-swept prairie during World War II.
Travis became part of the Air Mobility Command on 1 June 1992, when assets from MAC and SAC were fused into a single team.
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