Beale Air Force Base, Military air base in Yuba County, California, United States.
Beale Air Force Base is a military airfield in Yuba County in northern California, roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Sacramento. The installation covers an area of about 36 square miles (93 square kilometers) between the cities of Marysville and Yuba City.
The facility was established in 1942 as Camp Beale and initially served as a training ground for infantry troops during the Second World War. After a brief closure in the postwar years, it reopened in 1951 as an air force installation and received its current status.
The name honors Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a nineteenth-century California pioneer who served as surveyor and diplomat. Within the grounds, preserved foundations and building remnants recall the period when soldiers trained here for deployment in the Second World War.
Access to the installation is through several entrance gates, each with set operating hours and requiring valid identification. Visitors should allow enough time for security checks and inquire in advance about current access requirements.
The grounds host a large radar installation for monitoring space, part of a nationwide early warning system. Additionally, one of the few squadrons operating reconnaissance aircraft for high-altitude missions is stationed here.
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