Dover Air Force Base
Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB is a United States Air Force base under the operational control of Air Mobility Command, located 2 miles southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airbase in Delaware, USA
- Also known as: “DOV”, “Dover AFB”, “Dover Base Housing”, “KDOV”, and “Scottsburg Volunteer Fire Department / Scottsburg City Fire Department Station 1”
- Address: DE
Places of Interest
Highlights include Air Mobility Command Museum and Cherbourg Round Barn.
Air Mobility Command Museum
Museum
Photo: Teamski1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Air Mobility Command Museum is a military aviation museum located at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware dedicated to the history of the Air Transport Command, Military Air Transport Service, Military Airlift Command and Air Mobility Command.
Cherbourg Round Barn
Historic building
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cherbourg Round Barn near Little Creek, Delaware is a round barn that was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Now destroyed, its walls were made of poured concrete.
John Dickinson House
Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
The John Dickinson House, generally known as Poplar Hall, is a National Historic Landmark on the John Dickinson Plantation in Kent County, Delaware, 5 miles south of Dover.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Highland Acres and Kent Acres.
Highland Acres
Village
Highland Acres is a census-designated place in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,459 at the 2010 census.
Kent Acres
Village
Kent Acres is a census-designated place in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,890 at the 2010 census.
Dover Air Force Base
- Categories: air base, census-designated place in the United States, military installation, and transportation
- Location: Kent County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.12824° or 39° 7′ 42″ northLongitude
-75.46931° or 75° 28′ 10″ westPopulation
2,810Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)IATA airport code
DOVICAO airport code
KDOVFAA airport code
DOVUnited Nations Location Code
US DOVOpen location code
87F64GHJ+77OpenStreetMap ID
way 588532887OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=airfieldGeoNames ID
7726518Wikidata ID
Q755023
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Waray—“Dover Air Force Base” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Chinese: “Dover Base Housing”
- Chinese: “多佛尔空军基地”
- Chinese: “多佛空军基地”
- Chinese: “多佛空軍基地”
- Croatian: “Dover Base Housing (Delaver)”
- Croatian: “Dover Base Housing”
- Dutch: “Dover Base Housing”
- French: “base aérienne de Dover”
- French: “DOV”
- French: “Dover Air Force Base”
- German: “DOV”
- German: “Dover Air Force Base”
- German: “KDOV”
- Gilaki: “داور بیس هاوزینگ”
- Hebrew: “בסיס חיל האוויר דובר”
- Indonesian: “DOV”
- Indonesian: “KDOV”
- Irish: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Italian: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Italian: “Dover Base Housing”
- Japanese: “ドーヴァー空軍基地”
- Japanese: “ドーバー空軍基地”
- Ladin: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Ladin: “Dover Base Housing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dover Base Housing”
- Newari: “डोभर बेस हाउसिंग (डेलावेर)”
- Newari: “डोभर बेस हाउसिंग, डेलावेर”
- Newari: “डोभर बेस हाउसिंग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dover flystasjon”
- Norwegian: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Persian: “پایگاه نیروی هوایی دوور”
- Portuguese: “Dover Base Housing”
- Serbian: “Довер Бејс Хаусинг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dover Base Housing, Delaver”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dover Base Housing”
- Slovenian: “DOV”
- Slovenian: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Slovenian: “KDOV”
- Slovenian: “Letalsko oporišče Dover”
- Spanish: “Base de la Fuerza Aerea Dover”
- Spanish: “Base de la Fuerza Aérea Dover”
- Spanish: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Spanish: “Dover Base Housing”
- Swedish: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво дувр”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи Нерӯи Ҳавоии Довер”
- Urdu: “ڈوور ایئرفورس بیس”
- Uzbek: “Dover Air Force Base”
- Uzbek: “Dover Base Housing”
- Uzbek: “Довер Басе Ҳоусинг”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dover Air Force Base”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Base Theater and C-141B Starlifter.
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