Reese Air Force Base was a former U.S. Army Air Base located near Lubbock, Texas. It was closed in 1997 and converted into a research center.

Reese Air Force Base, Texas, served primarily as a pilot training base throughout its 50-year history. Since its establishment in 1941, the flying training school at Reese trained more than 25,000 pilots ranging from single-engine planes to multi-engine bombers.

Sep 30, 2022 · The base opened in 1942 as an army flying school, and was later renamed Reese Air Force Base in honor of 1st Lt. Augustus F. Reese, Jr., an airman from Shallowater who was killed in World War...

Reese Air Force Base is named in honor of 1st Lt Augustus F. Reese, Jr., of Shallowater, Texas, who lived about ten miles north of the base. He was killed in action at Cagliari, Sardinia, May 14, 1943, while flying a P-38 on a voluntary mission to destroy a railroad supply train.

Situated on 2000 acres and located 10 miles west of Lubbock, Texas, Reese Air Force Base was named after 1st Lt. Augustus F. Reese, Jr., a pilot from Shallowater, Texas, who was killed in a bombing raid in Italy on May 14, 1943.

Reese Technology Center is a research and business park located on the grounds of former Reese Air Force Base in western Lubbock at the unincorporated community of Reese Center.

Reese Air Force Base (IATA: REE, FAA Location identifier: 8XS8) was a base of the United States Air Force located 6 mi west of Lubbock, Texas, about 225 mi WNW of Fort Worth. The base's primary mission throughout its existence was pilot training.

Jan 1, 1996 · Reese Air Force Base was a center for undergraduate pilot training for the United States Air Force fourteen miles west of Lubbock. The history of the base dates to June 26, 1941, when the War Department announced that a flying installation would be built on 2,000 acres that had been offered by the city of Lubbock.

Sep 30, 2017 · Air Force pilots once taking to the skies of West Texas have been replaced by college students, researchers and business employees at the abandoned military base that still has life.

Former Reese Air Force Base. A close-up view of the main gate of the former Reese Air Force Base, Texas prior to the installation's closure.