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COLUMBUS AFB. Located in Mississippi is home of the 14th Flying Training Wing of the Air Education and Training Command. Columbus AFB is located five miles north of the city of Columbus in Lowndes County, Northeast Mississippi, ten miles west of the Alabama state border. Columbus Air Force Base began as an advanced twin-engine flying school during the rearming of America prior to World War II. Pilot training began here in February 1942. Columbus Air Force Base is where both instrument training, and flying standardization boards got their start, earning the base national recognition in TIME magazine and the New York Times. More than 8,000 students came to Columbus for pilot training during World War II to become flying officers in the U. S. Army Air Corps. The base closed after the war and remained inactive until 1951 when it was reopened as a contract flying school to train pilots during the Korean War. Four years later, the base was transferred from Air Training Command to Strategic Air Command. Columbus became home to a KC-135 tanker squadron, and a B-52 bomber squadron in the late 1950s. In 1969, Columbus resumed the mission for which it originally activated - training pilots. |
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