Sheppard Air Force Base
Sheppard Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located five miles north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: US Air Force base near Wichita Falls, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “SPS”
- Address: 1810 Avenue J, Wichita Falls, TX 76311
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wichita Falls Regional Airport.
Wichita Falls Regional Airport
Aerodrome
Wichita Falls Regional Airport is a public and military use airport six miles north of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas. Its runways and taxiways are shared with Sheppard Air Force Base; most operations are military, but American Eagle operates scheduled commercial passenger flights to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cashion Community and Wichita Falls.
Cashion Community
Village
Cashion Community is a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It was incorporated in 2000, and had a population of 286 in 2020. Cashion Community is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas metropolitan statistical area.
Wichita Falls
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wichita Falls is a town in the North Central Plains of Texas, named for Wichita Indians who lived near waterfalls on what is now the Wichita River. In 1882, Fort Worth and Denver Railroad brought the first train to the area, establishing the town as an agricultural and trade center.
Sheppard Air Force Base
- Categories: air base, Training Center of the German Airforce, military installation, and transportation
- Location: Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.98676° or 33° 59′ 12″ northLongitude
-98.49841° or 98° 29′ 54″ westElevation
1,030 feet (314 metres)ICAO airport code
KSHPOpen location code
8653XGP2+PJOpenStreetMap ID
way 505598862OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=airfieldGeoNames ID
6299077Wikidata ID
Q176146
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tajik—“Sheppard Air Force Base” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “謝潑德空軍基地”
- Chinese: “谢泼德空军基地”
- Czech: “Sheppardova letecká základna”
- Danish: “Sheppard Air Force Base”
- Dutch: “Sheppard Air Force Base”
- French: “base aérienne de Sheppard”
- French: “Sheppard Air Force Base”
- French: “SPS”
- German: “Sheppard Air Force Base”
- Italian: “Sheppard Air Force Base”
- Japanese: “シェパード基地”
- Japanese: “シェパード空軍基地”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sheppard Air Force Base”
- Norwegian: “Sheppard Air Force Base”
- Persian: “پایگاه نیروی هوایی شپپرد”
- Russian: “Шеппард (авиабаза)”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи Нерӯи Ҳавоии Шеппард”
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