Randolph Air Force Base
Randolph Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Bexar County, Texas, about 15 miles east-northeast of Downtown San Antonio. Opened in 1931, Randolph has been a flying training facility for the United States Army Air Corps, the United States Army Air Forces, and the Air Force during its entire existence.
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
- Type: Airbase
- Description: historic place in Bexar County, Texas
- Also known as: “KRND”, “Randolph AFB”, “Randolph Field”, and “RND”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Base Administration Building and Randolph Field Independent School District.
Base Administration Building
Public building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Randolph Field Independent School District
School
Randolph Field Independent School District is a public school district based in Randolph Field, Bexar County, Texas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Universal City and Converse.
Universal City
Village
Converse
Village
Converse is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States, 15 miles northeast of downtown San Antonio. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 27,466. It is part of the San Antonio metropolitan statistical area. Converse is situated 2½ miles west of Randolph Air Force Base.
Schertz
Town
Schertz is a city in Guadalupe, Bexar, and Comal counties in the U.S. state of Texas, within the San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan area. The population was 42,002 at the 2020 census, up from 31,465 at the 2010 census. Schertz is situated 2½ miles north of Randolph Air Force Base.
Randolph Air Force Base
- Categories: airbase, census-designated place in the United States, and transportation
- Location: Bexar, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.52967° or 29° 31′ 47″ north
Longitude
-98.27918° or 98° 16′ 45″ west
Population
1,280
Elevation
732 feet (223 metres)
IATA airport code
RND
ICAO airport code
KRND
Open location code
76X3GPHC+V8
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Randolph Air Force Base” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Base Aérea Randolph”
- Cebuano: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- Chinese: “兰多夫空军基地”
- Chinese: “蘭多夫空軍基地”
- Croatian: “Randolph AFB”
- Czech: “Letecká základna Randolph”
- Czech: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- Czech: “Randolphova letecká základna”
- Dutch: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- French: “base aérienne de Randolph”
- French: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- French: “RND”
- German: “KRND”
- German: “Randolph AFB”
- German: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- German: “Randolph Field”
- Gilaki: “رندالف ٚ هأوايي نيرۊ پایگاه”
- Irish: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- Italian: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- Japanese: “ランドルフ空軍基地”
- Ladin: “Randolph AFB”
- Ladin: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Randolph flystasjon”
- Norwegian: “Randolph Air Force Base”
- Persian: “پایگاه نیروی هوایی رندالف”
- Persian: “پایگاه هوایی رندالف”
- Serbian: “Ваздухопловна база Рандолф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Randolph AFB, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Randolph AFB”
- Spanish: “Base de la Fuerza Aerea Randolph”
- Spanish: “Base de la Fuerza Aérea Randolph”
- Spanish: “Randolph AFB”
- Ukrainian: “Рендольф (авіабаза)”
- Ukrainian: “Рендольф”
- Urdu: “رینڈولف ایئر فورس بیس”
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