Fairchild Airforce Base

ID: 5577 ~ Source: L83-152.200 The Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. ~ Date: 1950s

This file appears in: Spokane Army Air Depot: The Birth of Fairchild

After World War Two the Spokane Army Air Depot would become and important SAC base, and be repurposed into one of the largest Bomber bases in the U.S. during the Cold War

This file appears in: Spokane Army Air Depot: The Birth of Fairchild

Spokane Army Air Depot: The Birth of Fairchild

By Devrick Barnett

What is now Fairchild Airforce Base originated as an Army Air Supply and Repair Depot to service the other airfields around Spokane and in the Pacific Northwest.