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hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/\">Order of Battle<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-air-force\/\">United States Air Force<\/a> &middot; Air base<\/div>\n<h1>Beale Air Force Base<\/h1>\n<div class=\"native\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sub\">Active (high-altitude reconnaissance; U-2 fleet drawing down without a set end date)<\/p>\n<div class=\"marks\">\n<div class=\"mark\"><img data-opt-id=1683109678  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/usaf-symbol-white.png\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"badge big\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"United States Air Force badge\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"144\" height=\"112\"><span class=\"mk\">Service badge<b>United States Air Force<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><img data-opt-id=1179328831  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/usaf-majcom-acc.png\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"mjc\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Air Combat Command emblem\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\"><span class=\"mk\">Major command<b>Air Combat Command<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"finflash tall\" viewBox=\"0 0 40 48\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"United States Air Force fin marking: a wing colour band above the tail code BB\"><path d=\"M4 46 L15 6 H34 V46 Z\" fill=\"#39424f\"\/><path d=\"M15 6 H34 V15 H12.53 Z\" fill=\"#f2c200\"\/><rect x=\"15\" y=\"15.4\" width=\"19\" height=\"1.5\" fill=\"#12161c\"\/><text x=\"24.5\" y=\"32.5\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-family=\"Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\" font-size=\"12.5\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">BB<\/text><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">Tail code<b>BB &mdash; the 9th Reconnaissance Wing<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>KBAB<\/b><span>ICAO<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>3,660 m<\/b><span>Runway<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1948<\/b><span>Opened<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>Active<\/b><span>Status<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocred\">Photo: Staff Sgt Robert M. Trujillo \/ US Air Force (CC0)<\/div>\n<div class=\"accent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Operator<\/b>United States Air Force<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>State<\/b>California<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Elevation<\/b>34 m<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Coordinates<\/b>39.1361 N, 121.4370 W<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mfshare\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-btn\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"5\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"6\" cy=\"12\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"19\" r=\"3\"\/><path d=\"M8.6 10.6l6.8-4M8.6 13.4l6.8 4\"\/><\/svg>Share<\/button><span class=\"mfsh-net\"><\/span><span class=\"mfsh-said\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"story\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The story<\/div>\n<h2>Beale Air Force Base: what it was built for and what flies there now<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<p>Beale started as Camp Beale in 1942, an Army armoured and infantry training camp named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, the naval officer who ran camels across the American south-west in the 1850s. The Air Force took it over in 1948 and it spent the 1950s as a bomber and Bomarc missile site before finding the mission that defined it: in 1965 the 4200th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing stood up here to operate the SR-71 Blackbird, and Beale became the only operational Blackbird base in the world until the type was retired in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Its successor mission is the U-2S Dragon Lady, flown by the 9th Reconnaissance Wing since 1976 and still, seventy years after the type first flew, the Air Force&rsquo;s highest-flying manned aircraft; the wing also runs T-38 companion trainers because the U-2 is difficult enough to land that pilots need current jet time. The RQ-4 Global Hawk mission ran at Beale from 2004 until 2022, when the surviving aircraft moved to Grand Forks. The Air Force has been trying to retire the U-2 since 2023. The fleet has come down from 31 aircraft to about 23, but Congress has capped or blocked the divestment in every budget cycle since &mdash; the draft FY2027 bill would allow two more retirements and put 81 million dollars into restoring four aircraft to depot standard. There is no confirmed final date. A new battle management squadron has arrived to work the Common Mission Control Center, but what replaces the Dragon Lady on the ramp is not yet settled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"sat\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Satellite<\/div>\n<h2>Beale Air Force Base from above<\/h2>\n<div class=\"satfig\" id=\"satfig\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Enlarge the satellite view\">\n<div class=\"satimg\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Beale Air Force Base seen from above\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"satzoom\">Click to enlarge<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"satcap\"><b>One runway, 3,660 m of concrete.<\/b><span>Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"satlb\" id=\"satlb\"><span class=\"satlbx\">Close<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"satbig\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Beale Air Force Base seen from above, enlarged\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<style>#mfam .satimg{background-image:url(\"https:\/\/server.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\/World_Imagery\/MapServer\/export?bbox=-121.48950,39.11720,-121.38450,39.15500\\26 bboxSR=4326\\26 imageSR=3857\\26 size=1600,743\\26 format=jpg\\26 f=image\")!important}#mfam .satbig{background-image:url(\"https:\/\/server.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\/World_Imagery\/MapServer\/export?bbox=-121.48636,39.11058,-121.38764,39.16162\\26 bboxSR=4326\\26 imageSR=3857\\26 size=2048,1365\\26 format=jpg\\26 f=image\")!important}@media(max-width:820px){#mfam .satimg{background-image:url(\"https:\/\/server.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\/World_Imagery\/MapServer\/export?bbox=-121.46137,39.11720,-121.41263,39.15500\\26 bboxSR=4326\\26 imageSR=3857\\26 size=760,760\\26 format=jpg\\26 f=image\")!important}}<\/style>\n<div id=\"sat-data\" data-js=\"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\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(){var el=document.getElementById(\"sat-data\");var js=decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(el.getAttribute(\"data-js\"))));var sc=document.createElement(\"script\");sc.text=js;document.body.appendChild(sc);})();<\/script><section class=\"pqband\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"pqrow\">\n<figure class=\"pq\">\n<blockquote><p>Now that we&rsquo;re on the 70th anniversary of the U-2&mdash;70 years at 70,000 feet&mdash;it seemed right to demonstrate the true capability of this aircraft<\/blockquote><figcaption><b>Corey Bartholomew<\/b><span>1st Reconnaissance Squadron flight safety officer and U-2 instructor pilot<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/u-2-record-mission-70-years-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"pq\">\n<blockquote><p>On a windy, rough air day, the Mobil can be extremely busy helping the pilot ride a 40,000 pound bicycle down the runway!<\/blockquote><figcaption><b>Lt. Col. Mikko LaValley<\/b><span>99th Reconnaissance Squadron<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beale.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/667248\/why-does-the-u-2-need-chase-cars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beale Air Force Base<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"glance\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">At a glance<\/div>\n<h2>Beale Air Force Base in numbers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"specgrid three\">\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Location &amp; codes<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>ICAO<\/dt>\n<dd>KBAB<\/dd>\n<dt>Country<\/dt>\n<dd>United States<\/dd>\n<dt>State<\/dt>\n<dd>California<\/dd>\n<dt>Coordinates<\/dt>\n<dd>39.1361 N, 121.4370 W<\/dd>\n<dt>Elevation<\/dt>\n<dd>34 m <span class=\"imp\">(112 ft)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Usage<\/dt>\n<dd>Military<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Runways &amp; facilities<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Runways<\/dt>\n<dd>1<\/dd>\n<dt>Designator<\/dt>\n<dd>15\/33<\/dd>\n<dt>Length<\/dt>\n<dd>3,660 m <span class=\"imp\">(12,008 ft)<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Surface<\/dt>\n<dd>Concrete<\/dd>\n<dt>Quick Reaction Alert<\/dt>\n<dd>None<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Command &amp; status<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Status<\/dt>\n<dd>Active<span class=\"gnote\">high-altitude reconnaissance; U-2 fleet drawing down without a set end date<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Operator<\/dt>\n<dd>United States Air Force<\/dd>\n<dt>Opened<\/dt>\n<dd>1948<\/dd>\n<dt>Military use ended<\/dt>\n<dd>&mdash;<\/dd>\n<dt>Command<\/dt>\n<dd>9th Reconnaissance Wing<\/dd>\n<dt>Resident units<\/dt>\n<dd>3 current, 0 former<\/dd>\n<dt>Based types<\/dt>\n<dd>4<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"units\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Resident units<\/div>\n<h2>Who flies from Beale Air Force Base<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oob\">\n<div><span>Current<\/span><em>3 units<\/em><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>9th Reconnaissance Wing<small>Reconnaissance wing &middot; active &middot; from 1966<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/u-2-dragon-lady\/\">U-2S Dragon Lady<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/t-38-talon\/\">T-38 Talon<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>940th Air Refueling Wing<small>Reserve air refuelling wing &middot; afrc &middot; from 2015<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>KC-135R Stratotanker<\/dd>\n<dt>548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group<small>Intelligence group &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Aircraft types based here<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/u-2-dragon-lady\/\">U-2S Dragon Lady<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/t-38-talon\/\">T-38 Talon<\/a>, KC-135R Stratotanker, No assigned aircraft<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"knownfor\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Claim to fame<\/div>\n<h2>What Beale Air Force Base is known for<\/h2>\n<div class=\"kfgrid\">\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">01<\/div>\n<h3>The only U-2 base in the world<\/h3>\n<p>Every U-2 Dragon Lady pilot in the United States Air Force is made at Beale. The 9th Reconnaissance Wing owns the aircraft, the training syllabus, the pressure suits and the selection process, and it does so from a single installation in the Sacramento Valley. There is no second home for the type.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">The 9th Reconnaissance Wing fields more than 4,500 personnel in four groups at Beale and multiple overseas operating locations.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">02<\/div>\n<h3>A 1955 design still flying combat reconnaissance<\/h3>\n<p>The U-2 reached initial operating capability in 1956 and has never been replaced, only re-engined, re-winged and re-sensored. Today&rsquo;s U-2S carries a General Electric F118-101 and a multi-spectral electro-optical, infrared, synthetic aperture radar and signals-intelligence payload. The airframe is old; almost nothing bolted to it is.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">The U-2S has a 105-foot wingspan, cruises above 70,000 feet and has a range of more than 7,000 miles.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">03<\/div>\n<h3>The car that talks the jet down<\/h3>\n<p>The U-2 lands on bicycle gear with a pilot who cannot turn his head inside a full pressure suit. A second qualified U-2 pilot, the Mobil Officer, chases each landing in a high-performance car and calls the aircraft down the last few feet by radio. It is the most famous piece of choreography on the flightline.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">Chase cars accelerate from a standing start to close to 100 mph in a turn to get behind the jet on the runway.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">04<\/div>\n<h3>Home of the SR-71 Blackbird, 1966 to 1990<\/h3>\n<p>The first SR-71 touched down at Beale on 7 January 1966 and the last one left on 26 January 1990. For a quarter of a century the base was the fixed point around which a Mach 3 reconnaissance enterprise turned, complete with its own fuel, its own tankers and its own pressure-suit depot.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">Only 32 Blackbirds were built, and none was ever lost to enemy fire.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">05<\/div>\n<h3>A wartime armoured camp that became an air base<\/h3>\n<p>Beale did not begin as an airfield. The War Department bought 87,000 acres of Yuba County ranchland in 1942 and built Camp Beale, an Army training ground with a prisoner-of-war compound and a 1,000-bed hospital. The Air Force inherited a fraction of it after the war and never gave it back.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">Beale Air Force Base covers 22,944 acres today, down from the 87,000 acres acquired in 1942.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kf\">\n<div class=\"kfn\">06<\/div>\n<h3>The unmanned chapter, opened and closed<\/h3>\n<p>Beale flew the RQ-4 Global Hawk from October 2004, putting a remotely piloted aircraft into the same high-altitude reconnaissance business as the U-2. The 12th Reconnaissance Squadron gave up the last Block 30 airframe in July 2022, and the mission moved to Grand Forks.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"kff\">The final RQ-4 assigned to Beale&rsquo;s 12th Reconnaissance Squadron departed on 7 July 2022, ending about 18 years of Global Hawk operations there.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"deep\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Go deeper<\/div>\n<h2>The long version<\/h2>\n<div class=\"deep\">\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">01<\/span><span>Camp Beale: 87,000 acres of Yuba County, bought in a hurry<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>The base exists because in 1942 the War Department needed somewhere enormous and empty to teach Americans to fight. It acquired roughly 87,000 acres from about 150 families in the rolling oak country east of Marysville and opened Camp Beale that October. The name honours Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a nineteenth-century Naval Academy graduate remembered, among other things, for experimenting with camels in place of Army mules in the American south-west.<\/p>\n<p>What went on there was not aviation. Camp Beale was an armoured and infantry training centre: the 13th Armored Division trained there from September 1942 until December 1943, and the 81st and 96th Infantry Divisions passed through as well. At its wartime peak the camp held more than 60,000 soldiers, along with an induction centre, a 1,000-bed hospital and a prisoner-of-war compound. It was a small city of timber and tents, then largely taken apart again.<\/p>\n<p>The conversion came in 1948, when about 23,000 acres transferred to the newly independent Department of the Air Force for bombardier and navigator training as the Beale Bombing and Gunnery Range. It was renamed Beale Air Force Base in 1951. The surplus &mdash; some 64,000 acres &mdash; went back to public sale between 1959 and 1964, which is why the modern installation sits at 22,944 acres rather than the sprawl of 1943. Before reconnaissance took over, Beale had a Strategic Air Command past: B-52s arrived in 1960 and were reassigned in 1976, and from 1959 the base supported Titan I missile sites through the 851st Strategic Missile Squadron.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">02<\/span><span>The U-2 Dragon Lady: why a seventy-year-old design is still on the schedule<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>The simple answer to why the U-2 still flies is that nothing else does what it does at the price it does it. The aircraft reached initial operating capability in 1956 and the basic proposition has not changed: put a very large wing on a very light airframe, fly it above 70,000 feet, and look down. The current U-2S is powered by a General Electric F118-101 producing 17,000 pounds of thrust, spans 105 feet against a fuselage only 63 feet long, and has a range of more than 7,000 miles at a cruising speed of around 410 mph.<\/p>\n<p>What keeps it relevant is the payload bay rather than the airframe. The Air Force describes a sensor fit spanning multi-spectral electro-optical, infrared, synthetic aperture radar and signals intelligence, swapped and upgraded across decades while the wing stayed the same. The 9th Reconnaissance Wing&rsquo;s mission &mdash; to deliver persistent, integrated reconnaissance and combat power for the nation &mdash; is deliberately broader than photography, and it has more than 4,500 people in four groups at Beale and overseas to deliver it.<\/p>\n<p>The trade is that the U-2 is a genuinely difficult machine. Altitude is bought with an airframe so light and a wing so efficient that the margin between stalling and Mach buffet at cruise is brutally thin; on early aircraft, flying at roughly 460 mph true airspeed, the gap between the two was about seven miles per hour. Pilots called that the coffin corner, and the discipline it demands has shaped everything from the selection process to the design of the suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">03<\/span><span>The pressure suit, the tube food and the chase car<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>A U-2 sortie begins roughly an hour before engine start, with the pilot sitting still and breathing pure oxygen to purge nitrogen from the bloodstream before ascent. From there he is sealed into a full pressure suit of the kind astronauts wear, and stays sealed for the duration. The visor cannot be opened. That single constraint explains one of the stranger logistics chains in the Air Force: food arrives in toothpaste-style tubes fitted with straws that pass through a sealed port in the helmet, produced by the Army&rsquo;s Combat Feeding organisation at Natick, Massachusetts, which has supplied U-2 crews for some fifty years. Flavours run from chicken-a-la-king and beef stroganoff to sloppy joe, pasta Bolognese, applesauce and a caffeinated chocolate pudding; pilots typically get through about one tube an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The suits themselves are a Beale industry. The 9th Physiological Support Squadron, which traces its lineage to the Physiological Support Division stood up on 11 June 1957 when the Air Force received its first U-2, is the sole Air Force depot for full pressure suit maintenance and supply, serving the wing, the Department of Defense and NASA. It runs altitude-chamber training and fields about 105 active-duty and civilian members.<\/p>\n<p>The landing is the part everyone films. Because the pressure suit and helmet strip away peripheral vision, because the canopy can fog, and because the jet rides on bicycle-type landing gear with outrigger pogos that drop away on take-off, a second qualified U-2 pilot &mdash; the Mobil Officer &mdash; chases the aircraft down the runway in a fast car. Beale has used Camaros, Pontiacs, Subarus, Mercedes and Audis for the job. The car accelerates from rest to close to 100 mph in a turn to get into position, and the Mobil begins calling from around ten feet: height above the runway, centreline, wings level, what to do with the controls. The aircraft must be flown down to roughly two feet and then allowed to run out of energy; touch down too high and sensors break, float too long and the runway ends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">04<\/span><span>The 1st Reconnaissance Squadron and the narrowest pipeline in the Air Force<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>Beale does not receive U-2 pilots; it chooses them. Applicants come from any flying background &mdash; fighters, bombers, tankers, transports, trainers, other services &mdash; but must clear a high hours bar: roughly 1,200 rated hours, or 800 in single-pilot trainers such as the T-6, T-38 or T-45, or 500 in fighters, plus substantial pilot-in-command time and the ability to hold a sensitive compartmented clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Those who pass paper screening come to Beale for a temporary duty of ten to fourteen days. The first week is interviews with wing leadership, a flight physical, egress training and briefings, after which a decision is made on whether the candidate proceeds. The second week is the part that matters: three acceptance flights, designated AF-1, AF-2 and AF-3, totalling about seven hours in the two-seat trainer. AF-1 alone covers flight-characteristics manoeuvres, a descent to an instrument approach and multiple visual circuits and landings. There is exactly one interview opportunity; candidates who are not selected cannot reapply.<\/p>\n<p>Selection is followed by about ten months of training, including roughly three months of T-38 qualification and a 22-sortie U-2 syllabus, and a three-year service commitment once qualified. The T-38 Talon on the Beale ramp exists chiefly to keep this pipeline fed, which is why a supersonic trainer sits alongside one of the slowest high-altitude aircraft in service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">05<\/span><span>The SR-71 years: what it actually took to run a Mach 3 aircraft from a valley airfield<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>The first SR-71 arrived at Beale on 7 January 1966, and the wing that operated it was redesignated the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing on 25 June 1966. Only 32 Blackbirds were ever built. Sustaining them at Beale meant importing an entire parallel supply chain, because almost nothing about the aircraft was standard.<\/p>\n<p>Start with the fuel. The Blackbird burned JP-7, a low-vapour-pressure, high-flash-point kerosene so reluctant to ignite that a lit match dropped into a puddle of it goes out; engine and afterburner light-up required a separate pyrophoric chemical igniter. The fuel doubled as a heat sink, pre-cooling bleed air before it entered the engines, which mattered because roughly 93 per cent of the airframe&rsquo;s structural weight was titanium alloy and sustained Mach 3 cruise drove average surface temperatures to between 462 and 622 degrees Fahrenheit, with local hot spots reaching about 1,050. The integral tanks were sealed with some 10,000 linear feet of fluorosilicone sealant and still leaked freely on the ground, because the structure had to be built loose enough to expand across a temperature swing from minus 60 to more than 600 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the aircraft launched light and refuelled almost immediately, and why the tanker force was bespoke: KC-135Q tankers carried segregated tanks so they could hold the Blackbird&rsquo;s JP-7 alongside their own fuel. The performance justified the trouble. On 28 July 1976 an SR-71 set an absolute speed record of 2,193.167 mph and an absolute altitude record of 85,068.997 feet. Retirement came on 26 January 1990, and on 6 March Lieutenant Colonels Ed Yeilding and Joseph Vida flew 61-7972 from Los Angeles to Washington in 1 hour, 4 minutes and 20 seconds at an average 2,124 mph, en route to the Smithsonian. One Beale aircraft, 61-7976, had by then logged 2,981 hours across 942 sorties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ddet\">\n<summary><span class=\"dn\">06<\/span><span>Global Hawk, the battle management squadron, and the argument over the U-2&rsquo;s last day<\/span><span class=\"dx\">Read<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"dbody\">\n<p>Beale&rsquo;s experiment with unmanned high-altitude reconnaissance ran from October 2004 to July 2022. The 12th Reconnaissance Squadron flew the RQ-4 Global Hawk, with a 130.9-foot wingspan, a 60,000-foot ceiling, more than 34 hours of unrefuelled endurance and a 12,300-nautical-mile range &mdash; a machine that could loiter far longer than any pressure-suited human. The last Beale Block 30 departed on 7 July 2022, consolidating at Grand Forks before the airframes passed to Northrop Grumman for conversion into high-speed test platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The U-2&rsquo;s ending has been announced more than once. The Air Force has repeatedly proposed divesting the fleet and Congress has repeatedly declined; House appropriators writing the fiscal 2026 defence bill inserted language barring funds from being used to divest or prepare to divest more than eight U-2 aircraft. The fiscal 2027 request goes further, proposing to retire all 23 remaining Dragon Ladies by the end of that year, in a fleet whose average age now exceeds 43 years and whose mission capable rates have slipped.<\/p>\n<p>Beale is being given a new reason to exist in parallel. From summer 2025 a battle management squadron of roughly 140 airmen began standing up at the base, working with the Common Mission Control Center under the 427th Reconnaissance Squadron and using artificial intelligence and machine learning to fuse intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data for faster decisions. The aircraft may go; the business of turning collection into targeting is being kept at Beale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"timeline\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>Beale Air Force Base, year by year<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1942<\/div>\n<p>The War Department acquires roughly 87,000 acres of Yuba County land from about 150 families and opens Camp Beale that October as an Army training site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1943<\/div>\n<p>The 13th Armored Division completes its training at Camp Beale in December, having arrived in September 1942; the camp also holds a prisoner-of-war compound and a 1,000-bed hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1948<\/div>\n<p>About 23,000 acres transfer from the Army to the new Department of the Air Force, initially as the Beale Bombing and Gunnery Range for bombardier and navigator training.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1949<\/div>\n<p>The 9th Bombardment Wing, the 9th Reconnaissance Wing&rsquo;s direct forebear, is activated on 1 May at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field in California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1951<\/div>\n<p>The installation is formally renamed Beale Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1957<\/div>\n<p>The Physiological Support Division, ancestor of today&rsquo;s 9th Physiological Support Squadron, is established on 11 June as the Air Force receives its first U-2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1959<\/div>\n<p>Beale becomes the support base for Titan I missile sites operated by the 851st Strategic Missile Squadron.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1960<\/div>\n<p>B-52 bombers arrive at Beale under Strategic Air Command; they are reassigned in 1976.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1966<\/div>\n<p>The first SR-71 Blackbird lands at Beale on 7 January, and the unit is redesignated the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing on 25 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1970<\/div>\n<p>An SR-71 and a KC-135Q collide during refuelling near El Paso on 17 June; the Blackbird is lost, both crew eject, and the damaged tanker flies nearly 1,000 miles back to Beale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1976<\/div>\n<p>The U-2 arrives at Beale on 1 July, while on 28 July an SR-71 sets absolute records of 2,193.167 mph and 85,068.997 feet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1990<\/div>\n<p>The SR-71 leaves Beale on 26 January; on 6 March a Blackbird flies Los Angeles to Washington in 1 hour, 4 minutes and 20 seconds on its delivery to the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1993<\/div>\n<p>Following the disestablishment of Strategic Air Command, the pressure-suit organisation is redesignated the 9th Physiological Support Squadron in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1996<\/div>\n<p>A Beale U-2 crashes into a commercial district in Oroville on 7 August, killing the pilot and a woman on the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2004<\/div>\n<p>The RQ-4 Global Hawk begins operations at Beale in October with the 12th Reconnaissance Squadron.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2016<\/div>\n<p>A TU-2S crashes near the Sutter Buttes on 20 September, killing the instructor pilot; separately, the 940th Air Refueling Wing welcomes the first of eight KC-135s to Beale on 10 July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2022<\/div>\n<p>The last RQ-4 assigned to Beale departs on 7 July, ending about 18 years of Global Hawk operations at the base.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2025<\/div>\n<p>Two Beale pilots fly a TU-2S for more than 14 hours and about 6,000 miles over all 48 contiguous states on 31 July and 1 August, marking 70 years of the U-2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In pictures<\/div>\n<h2>Beale Air Force Base, photographed<\/h2>\n<div class=\"galgrid\">\n<figure class=\"wide\"><span class=\"gim ph2\"><\/span><figcaption><b>Suiting up for 70,000 feet<\/b>A U-2 pilot is helped into the full-pressure suit. An hour of breathing pure oxygen comes first, to purge the nitrogen from the blood.<span>Photo: Senior Airman Eugene Oliver \/ US Air Force (public domain)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><span class=\"gim ph3\"><\/span><figcaption><b>Inside the cockpit, above 60,000 feet<\/b>Above roughly 19,000 m unpressurised blood would boil, so everyone who goes up in the Dragon Lady wears the suit.<span>Photo: Christopher Michel \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><span class=\"gim ph4\"><\/span><figcaption><b>The chase car, Beale, 2012<\/b>The U-2 lands on bicycle gear with almost no view downwards, so a second pilot drives up the runway calling the height off the tarmac.<span>Photo: Senior Airman Drew Buchanan \/ US Air Force (public domain)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><span class=\"gim ph5\"><\/span><figcaption><b>A U-2S on the ramp<\/b>About 23 of the 31 aircraft the Air Force held in 2024 remain. Congress has blocked or capped every attempt to retire the rest.<span>Photo: Simon Butler \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><span class=\"gim ph6\"><\/span><figcaption><b>The Dragon Lady airborne<\/b>Seventy years after the type first flew, it is still the highest-flying manned aircraft the Air Force operates.<span>Photo: Julian Herzog \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"video\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">On film<\/div>\n<h2>Beale Air Force Base on film<\/h2>\n<div class=\"vidwrap\">\n<div class=\"vidfr\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tfk-pQW3zss\" title=\"The first U-2 pilot from the Air Force Reserve\" loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"vidcap\"><b>The first U-2 pilot from the Air Force Reserve<\/b> Beale Air Force Base, via YouTube.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"incidents\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Incidents &amp; stories<\/div>\n<h2>What happened here<\/h2>\n<div class=\"inc\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">17 June 1970<\/div>\n<h3>Blackbird and tanker collide over Texas<\/h3>\n<p>During a second refuelling contact near El Paso at 26,000 feet, an SR-71 flown by Major Buddy Brown with Major Matt Jarvis in the back seat developed unexplained pitch oscillations at the low speeds refuelling requires. Brown ran out of control authority and the Blackbird struck the underside of the KC-135Q, shearing off its own nose and canopy. Both crewmen ejected and survived, though Brown&rsquo;s legs were shattered. The tanker, its boom jammed in the extended position and its tail damaged, flew close to 1,000 miles back to Beale and landed safely. The airframe was later repaired, upgraded and is still in service with an Air National Guard unit.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.127wg.ang.af.mil\/Media\/Articles\/Article-Display\/Article\/3352858\/blackbird-midair-collision-the-story-of-a-kc-135s-survival\/\">127th Wing, Air National Guard<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">7 August 1996<\/div>\n<h3>A U-2 comes down in a newspaper car park at Oroville<\/h3>\n<p>Captain Randy Roby, 32, of Fresno, reported trouble shortly after taking off from Beale and never made it back. His U-2 struck the Oroville Mercury-Register building and the parking lot beside it in the commercial heart of the town, about 25 miles north-west of the base. Roby was killed, as was Jerri Vering, an Oroville woman who was in the parking lot at the time. Two other people were injured: an off-duty police officer treated for smoke inhalation and a local woman who suffered concussion, both released the same day. It remains the only U-2 accident to kill a member of the public in the valley.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Spy-Plane-Crashes-in-Oroville-Pilot-Resident-2971135.php\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">22 June 2005<\/div>\n<h3>A Beale pilot lost returning from an Afghanistan mission<\/h3>\n<p>Major Duane W. Dively, 43, of the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale, was killed when his single-seat U-2 crashed in south-west Asia while returning to base after a sortie flown in support of American troops in Afghanistan. Dively had more than twenty years of military service and over a decade on the U-2, and had flown AC-130 gunships before moving to high-altitude reconnaissance. The loss underlined the point that Beale&rsquo;s aircraft are almost never at Beale: the wing&rsquo;s work is done from forward operating locations, with the home base supplying the pilots, the suits and the sustainment.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/thefallen.militarytimes.com\/air-force-maj-duane-w-dively\/935113\">Military Times<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">20 September 2016<\/div>\n<h3>The Sutter Buttes crash and an ejection that went wrong<\/h3>\n<p>A two-seat TU-2S from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing came down near the Sutter Buttes, roughly 20 miles from Beale, at about 9.05 a.m. The flight was an acceptance sortie &mdash; part of the competitive selection process by which candidate pilots are assessed. The Accident Investigation Board found that the interviewing pilot&rsquo;s control inputs put the aircraft into an unintentional secondary stall during recovery from an approach-to-stall exercise, producing a sharp left wing drop and an extreme nose-low attitude. As the aircraft approached inverted and neared minimum ejection altitude, the instructor ordered ejection; during the sequence he and his seat struck the right wing. Lieutenant Colonel Ira S. Eadie of the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron was killed. The other pilot survived with injuries that were not life-threatening. The aircraft, valued at about 32 million dollars, was destroyed, and U-2 training flights at Beale were briefly suspended.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/04\/19\/pilot-error-to-blame-for-crash-of-u-2-trainer-in-september\/\">Air Force Times<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">2011 to 2013<\/div>\n<h3>The brain scans that changed the cockpit<\/h3>\n<p>A study of 105 U-2 pilots aged 26 to 50, carried out between May 2011 and October 2012 and led by Dr Stephen McGuire, a neurologist and retired Air Force colonel, found that around three-quarters showed more white-matter brain lesions than would be expected for their age and health, of a kind associated with repeated injury. It followed a documented rise in the frequency and severity of altitude decompression sickness among U-2 pilots between 2002 and 2009, as mission lengths grew. The Air Force response was the Cabin Altitude Reduction Effort, which reinforced the airframe, replaced valves and reworked bleed-air logic to bring the equivalent cabin altitude down from 29,500 feet to 15,000 feet, at a cost of 8.7 million dollars for the aircraft modified at Beale. Afterwards the 9th Physiological Support Squadron commander reported no further decompression sickness incidents.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.torch.aetc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/567570\/brain-lesions-in-spy-plane-pilots-upgrades-in-u-2-target-decompression-sickness\/\">Torch, Air Education and Training Command<\/a><\/article>\n<article>\n<div class=\"incd\">31 July to 1 August 2025<\/div>\n<h3>Seventy years, seventy thousand feet, forty-eight states<\/h3>\n<p>Two instructor pilots from the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron took a two-seat TU-2S off from Beale on the evening of 31 July and landed the following day, having flown for more than fourteen hours and covered around 6,000 miles over all 48 contiguous states at roughly 70,000 feet. The sortie was timed to the seventieth anniversary of the U-2&rsquo;s first flight and deliberately pushed beyond the type&rsquo;s normal operating envelope, testing both maximum range and the endurance of crews sealed in pressure suits. It required the 9th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and the 9th Physiological Support Squadron as much as the aircrew. One pilot said the idea had been eleven years in the making.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"incs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beale.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4262756\/team-beale-conducts-historic-u-2-dragon-lady-flight-11-years-in-the-making\/\">Beale Air Force Base<\/a><\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"map\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Location<\/div>\n<h2>Beale Air Force Base and its neighbours<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mapframe\">\n<div id=\"oobmap\" class=\"oobmap\" style=\"height:440px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"legend\"><span><i class=\"dot\"><\/i> Active air base<\/span><span><i class=\"dot was\"><\/i> Closed or reserve<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt\" id=\"nearbytbl\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Nearby base<\/th>\n<th>ICAO<\/th>\n<th>Status<\/th>\n<th>Based types<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr data-base=\"edwards\">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/edwards\/\">Edwards Air Force Base<\/a><\/td>\n<td>KEDW<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>F-22A Raptor, F-35A Lightning II, F-16C\/D Fighting Falcon, B-1B Lancer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr data-base=\"travis\">\n<td>Travis Air Force Base<\/td>\n<td>KSUU<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>C-5M Super Galaxy, C-17A Globemaster III, KC-46A Pegasus, No assigned aircraft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"reads\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">From the magazine<\/div>\n<h2>More on Beale Air Force Base in Afterburner<\/h2>\n<div class=\"reads\"><a class=\"read\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/u-2-dragon-lady-reprieve-fy2027-congress-blocks-retirement-2026\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Afterburner<\/span><span class=\"rh\">The Spy Plane That Refuses to Die<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Air Force has been trying to retire the U-2 for three decades. In June 2026 Congress blocked it again.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the story<\/span><\/a><a class=\"read\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/the-u-2-pilot-who-forgot-how-to-fly-at-70000-feet\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Afterburner<\/span><span class=\"rh\">The U-2 Pilot Who Forgot How to Fly at 70,000 Feet<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Decompression sickness at the edge of space, in a cockpit no one can reach, in a suit that cannot be loosened.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the story<\/span><\/a><a class=\"read\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/brian-shul-sr-71-pilot-burns-blackbird-dispute\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Afterburner<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Brian Shul: The Burned Pilot Who Flew the Blackbird<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Burned almost to death in 1973, told he would never fly again, and later at 85,000 feet. Parts of the legend are disputed.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the story<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/div>\n<h2>Everything people ask about Beale Air Force Base<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open>\n<summary>How many U-2s are left, and when will they retire?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The fiscal 2027 budget request proposes retiring all 23 remaining U-2s by the end of that fiscal year. Congress has blocked previous attempts; House appropriators writing the fiscal 2026 defence bill limited the Air Force to divesting no more than eight aircraft. The fleet&rsquo;s average age now exceeds 43 years.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why does a car chase the U-2 down the runway?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The pilot&rsquo;s pressure suit and helmet remove peripheral vision, the canopy can fog, and the aircraft rides on bicycle-type landing gear rather than a conventional tricycle arrangement. A second qualified U-2 pilot, called the Mobil Officer, drives a fast car behind the jet and calls out height, centreline and wing attitude from about ten feet down to touchdown.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What do U-2 pilots eat on a long mission?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">They cannot open the visor, so food comes as puree in tubes with straws that pass through a sealed port in the helmet. The tubes are made by the Army&rsquo;s Combat Feeding organisation at Natick, Massachusetts, and flavours include chicken-a-la-king, beef stroganoff, pasta Bolognese, applesauce and a caffeinated chocolate pudding. Pilots typically consume about one tube an hour.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How long was the SR-71 based at Beale?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The first SR-71 arrived on 7 January 1966 and the type left on 26 January 1990, a span of just over 24 years. Beale was the SR-71&rsquo;s home station throughout, with operational detachments elsewhere. Only 32 Blackbirds were built in total.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How hard is it to become a U-2 pilot?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Applicants need roughly 1,200 rated hours, or 800 in single-pilot trainers, or 500 in fighters, plus command time and clearance eligibility. Selected candidates spend ten to fourteen days at Beale including three acceptance flights totalling about seven hours. There is only one interview opportunity and no reapplication; those who pass then face about ten months of training.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Does Beale still fly the Global Hawk?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">No. The RQ-4 arrived in October 2004 with the 12th Reconnaissance Squadron and the last Beale-assigned Block 30 aircraft departed on 7 July 2022, after about 18 years. The airframes consolidated at Grand Forks Air Force Base before passing to industry for conversion into test platforms.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why is it called Beale?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The base takes its name from Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a nineteenth-century American figure who graduated from the Naval Academy and is remembered in part for experimenting with camels as an alternative to Army mules in the south-west. Camp Beale opened under that name in October 1942, long before any aircraft were based there.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What happens to Beale after the U-2?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">A battle management squadron of roughly 140 airmen began standing up at the base from summer 2025, working with the Common Mission Control Center under the 427th Reconnaissance Squadron. Its task is to fuse intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The 9th Reconnaissance Wing remains the host unit.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is Beale Air Force Base still an active military air base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes. Active (high-altitude reconnaissance; U-2 fleet drawing down without a set end date). The United States Air Force operates it as 9th Reconnaissance Wing.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the ICAO code of Beale Air Force Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The ICAO code of Beale Air Force Base is KBAB. The airfield sits at 34 m above sea level in California, at 39.1361 N, 121.4370 W.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How long is the runway at Beale Air Force Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Beale Air Force Base has one runway: 15\/33, 3,660 m (12,008 ft), concrete.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Which squadrons are based at Beale Air Force Base?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Beale Air Force Base currently hosts 9th Reconnaissance Wing flying the U-2S Dragon Lady, T-38 Talon; 940th Air Refueling Wing flying the KC-135R Stratotanker; 548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group flying the No assigned aircraft.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many U-2s are left, and when will they retire?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The fiscal 2027 budget request proposes retiring all 23 remaining U-2s by the end of that fiscal year. 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You can fly the jet.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"adp\">MiGFlug flies the L-39 Albatros out of Florida &mdash; the same jet trainer that taught most of the air forces on the other side of the Cold War, in a real second seat with aerobatics and time on the controls.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-albatros-florida\/\">Fly the L-39 Albatros in Florida<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Continue the tour<\/div>\n<h2>Around Beale Air Force Base<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-air-force\/\"><span class=\"rk\">The operator<\/span><span class=\"rh\">United States Air Force<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Fleet, bases and order of battle of the service that flies from here.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the United States Air Force page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/u-2-dragon-lady\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Based here<\/span><span class=\"rh\">U-2S Dragon Lady<\/span><span class=\"rp\">History, specifications and stories in the Book of Beasts.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the U-2S Dragon Lady story<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/t-38-talon\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Based here<\/span><span class=\"rh\">T-38 Talon<\/span><span class=\"rp\">History, specifications and stories in the Book of Beasts.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the T-38 Talon story<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section style=\"padding:48px 0 64px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/div>\n<h2>Every fact, checked<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/air_traffic\/flight_info\/aeronav\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FAA National Airspace System Resource<\/a><span>runways, identifiers, elevations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine: U-2 retirement<\/a><span>U-2 fleet and Beale<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/544584\/team-beale-conducts-historic-u-2-dragon-lady-flight-11-years-making\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Beale conducts historic U-2 Dragon Lady flight<\/a><span>DVIDS, 31 July 2025. A record-length sortie on the type&rsquo;s seventieth anniversary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beale.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/667024\/sr-71-blackbird-gone-but-not-forgotten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SR-71 Blackbird: gone but not forgotten<\/a><span>Beale Air Force Base, 2016. The crew who still look after the display aircraft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/u-2-avoid-chopping-block-draft-spending-bill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U-2 avoids the chopping block in a draft spending bill<\/a><span>Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine, 10 June 2026. The fleet down to 23, and money to restore four.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrc.af.mil\/Portals\/87\/documents\/Wing%20Documents\/940ARW%20Fact%20Sheet%20JAN26.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">940th Air Refueling Wing fact sheet<\/a><span>Air Force Reserve Command, January 2026. Eight KC-135R at Beale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/agency\/usaf\/tailmark.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalSecurity.org: Air Force Aircraft Tail Markings<\/a><span>two-letter tail codes by wing and base<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beale.af.mil\/Portals\/110\/CIP%20Environmental.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Community Involvement Plan, Beale Air Force Base<\/a><span>Base acreage of 22,944 acres, the 87,000 acres acquired in 1942 from about 150 families, Camp Beale functions, 13th Armored Division dates, 1948 transfer of about 23,000 acres, 1951 renaming, land sales 1959 to 1964, B-52s 1960 to 1976, Titan I and the 851st Strategic Missile Squadron.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/104560\/u-2stu-2s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U-2S\/TU-2S fact sheet<\/a><span>Engine, thrust, wingspan, length, weights, speed, ceiling above 70,000 feet, range over 7,000 miles, sensor types, full pressure suit, bicycle landing gear and the chase requirement, initial operating capability in 1956.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beale.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/667248\/why-does-the-u-2-need-chase-cars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why does the U-2 need chase cars?<\/a><span>The Mobil Officer role, restricted vision from the suit and helmet, canopy fogging, the vehicle types used at Beale, acceleration to close to 100 mph, callouts beginning at ten feet, and the LaValley quotation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torch.aetc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/567570\/brain-lesions-in-spy-plane-pilots-upgrades-in-u-2-target-decompression-sickness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brain lesions in spy plane pilots? Upgrades in U-2 target decompression sickness<\/a><span>The MRI study of 105 U-2 pilots led by Dr Stephen McGuire, the white-matter lesion finding, the rise in decompression sickness from 2002 to 2009, and the Cabin Altitude Reduction Effort reducing cabin altitude from 29,500 to 15,000 feet at a cost of 8.7 million dollars.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beale.af.mil\/Information\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/279960\/u-2-pilot-application\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U-2 Pilot Application<\/a><span>Flight-hour prerequisites, clearance requirement, the ten to fourteen day interview visit, the three acceptance sorties totalling about seven hours, the single-opportunity rule, about ten months of training including a 22-sortie syllabus, and the three-year commitment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/u-2-record-mission-70-years-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facing Retirement, U-2 Flies Record Mission to Celebrate 70 Years<\/a><span>The 31 July to 1 August 2025 record flight, its duration and distance, the pilots involved, declining mission capable rates, and the verbatim Bartholomew quotation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beale.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4262756\/team-beale-conducts-historic-u-2-dragon-lady-flight-11-years-in-the-making\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Beale conducts historic U-2 Dragon Lady flight, 11 years in the making<\/a><span>Official account of the 2025 endurance flight, its more than fourteen hours and over 6,000 nautical miles across all 48 contiguous states, and the supporting role of the 9th Aircraft Maintenance and 9th Physiological Support Squadrons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/u-2-fleet-half-of-a-10s-would-retire-air-force-plans-to-add-108-planes-in-27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2027 Budget: U-2 to Retire, Air Force to Buy Over 30 Billion Dollars in Aircraft<\/a><span>The proposal to retire all 23 remaining U-2s by the end of fiscal 2027, the fleet&rsquo;s average age of more than 43 years, and the record of Congress blocking earlier divestment attempts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/api\/citations\/20090007797\/downloads\/20090007797.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Design and Development of the Blackbird, NASA<\/a><span>JP-7 fuel properties and the pyrophoric igniter, fuel used as a heat sink, about 93 per cent titanium structural weight, surface temperatures of 462 to 622 degrees Fahrenheit with hot spots near 1,050, and the 10,000 linear feet of tank sealant that still leaked.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.127wg.ang.af.mil\/Media\/Articles\/Article-Display\/Article\/3352858\/blackbird-midair-collision-the-story-of-a-kc-135s-survival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blackbird midair collision: the story of a KC-135&rsquo;s survival<\/a><span>The 17 June 1970 collision near El Paso at 26,000 feet, the crew of Major Buddy Brown and Major Matt Jarvis, the loss of the SR-71, the tanker&rsquo;s nearly 1,000-mile return to Beale, and KC-135Q segregated tanks for JP-7.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/04\/19\/pilot-error-to-blame-for-crash-of-u-2-trainer-in-september\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pilot error to blame for crash of U-2 trainer in September<\/a><span>Accident Investigation Board findings on the secondary stall, wing drop and nose-low attitude, the ejection order near minimum altitude, the instructor&rsquo;s seat striking the right wing, the acceptance-flight context, and the roughly 32 million dollar loss.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Spy-Plane-Crashes-in-Oroville-Pilot-Resident-2971135.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spy Plane Crashes in Oroville &mdash; Pilot, Resident Die<\/a><span>Captain Randy Roby, aged 32 of Fresno, the ground fatality Jerri Vering, the impact on the Oroville Mercury-Register building and car park, the two injured bystanders, and the distance from Beale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thefallen.militarytimes.com\/air-force-maj-duane-w-dively\/935113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force Maj. Duane W. Dively<\/a><span>Rank, age of 43, assignment to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale, the 22 June 2005 date, the crash in south-west Asia while returning from a mission supporting operations in Afghanistan, and his prior AC-130 background.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"verified\">Verified 2026-09-13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<style>#mfam .ph1{background-image:url(https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/usaf-beale-hero.jpg)!important}#mfam .ph2{background-image:url(https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/usaf-beale-pressure-suit.jpg)!important}#mfam .ph3{background-image:url(https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/usaf-beale-u2-cockpit.jpg)!important}#mfam 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