Youngstown Air Reserve Station
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| Youngstown Air Reserve Station
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| IATA: YNG - ICAO: KYNG | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Western Reserve Port Authority | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 55 ft (16.8 m) | ||
| Coordinates | 41° -15-38.6480" N 080°-40-44.7480" W |
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 14/32 | 9,003 ft. | 2,744 m. | Asphalt |
| 5/23 | 5,002 ft. | 1,525 m. | Asphalt |
| Assault Strip | 3,500 ft. | 1,067 m. | Unknown |
Youngstown Air Reserve Station is located at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Trumbull County, in northeastern Ohio. Its primary mission is to serve as home of the 910th Airlift Wing, an Air Force Reserve C-130H unit with two flying squadrons and a total of 16 aircraft. A portion of the Wing is devoted to its aerial spray mission, the only such unit in the US military. The Wing has nearly 1,300 drilling Air Force Reservists. The installation also hosts a Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center that is home to nearly 400 Naval and Marine Corps Reservists.
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[edit] Units
[edit] 757th Airlift Squadron
The 757th Airlift Squadron was on an Active Duty Mission from the 1940's to 1973. The unit was assigned to the USAF Reserve in 1973. The unit relocated in 1992 from 907 AW Rickenbacker ANGB Ohio to 910 AW at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. The mission of the 757th Airlift Squadron is to maintain a large-area fixed-wing aerial application capability to control disease vectors in combat areas and on DoD installations; to maintain a large-area application capability to control vegetation and pests of vegetation on DoD installations; and to provide aerial spray training.
The 757th operates 8 C-130H2 aircraft, four of which are modified to accept the Modular Aerial Spray System. Each MASS has a capacity of 2,000 gallons; which can be delivered at a flow Rate of 232 Gallons per Minute, at an altitude of 100 Feet for a total spray-on time of 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds.
[edit] 773d Airlift Squadron
The 773d Airlift Squadron is one of the oldest airlift squadrons in existence today. It historically calls itself the "Fleagles" and is assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing (Air Force Reserve Command), Youngstown Warren Air Reserve Station, Vienna, Ohio. The unit flies the C-130 H2 aircraft.
The 773 AS was originally designated as Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), flying the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Initially activated at Geiger Field, Washington, on 1 August 1943, the squadron has since moved to various locales around the world.
Then on 1 April 1995, with the Reserve Forces building, the Department of Defense reactivated the 773d at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, joining the 910th Airlift Wing and the 757th Airlift Squadron. Since that time the 773d has flown numerous humanitarian missions from Europe to the former Yugoslavia. Delivering peacekeeping forces, food, and medicines to aid the people of the region. The 773d also continues the rotational airlift requirement for Central and South America, Southeast Asia and the Far East.
[edit] Facilities
The installation has 59 operational buildings, primarily aviation maintenance, training and administrative facilities. While there are dormitories for temporary lodging, there is no permanent housing on the installation. The Western Reserve Port Authority (a joint venture of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties and the cities of Warren and Youngstown) operates the airport itself, including its three runways, while the Air Force provides full-time fire protection for the entire airport. The Federal Aviation Administration’s control tower is located on the installation. The installation also operates an additional assault runway on leased property parallel to the airport’s main runway. This assault strip is not contiguous to the installation.
The Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport has on-site, 24-hour daily Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting coverage. This is provided full time under a cooperative agreement with the Air Force Reserve base on airport. Service is available to all aircraft operating at the airport.
[edit] Civil Operations
Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport is conveniently located in Vienna, Ohio, which is just 11 miles north of the city of Youngstown and just 10 miles east of the city of Warren, Ohio. The airport is just one mile north of State Route 82 on Highway 193. The runways at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport have a full complement of newly resurfaced taxiways with edge lights and centerline markings. The taxiways were just resurfaced in 1999 and 2000. New taxiways were added to accommodate a new and expanded airline terminal and air cargo aircraft concrete parking aprons.
[edit] Redesignation
During the summer of 2003 nine Air Force Reserve Command installations were re-designated joint bases or stations to reflect the multiservice use of the facilities. The locations and their new designations are: Dobbins Joint Air Reserve Base, Georgia; Grissom JARB, Indiana; Homestead JARB, Florida; March JARB, California; Minneapolis-St. Paul Joint Air Reserve Station, Minnesota; Niagara Falls JARS, New York; Pittsburgh JARS, Pennsylvania; Westover JARB, Massachusetts; and Youngstown JARS, Ohio.
[edit] BRAC 2005
In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to close Pittsburgh International Airport (IAP) Air Reserve Station (ARS) and relocate flight related ECS (aeromedical squadron) to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport ARS
