Brooks Air Force Base

Brooks Air Force Base
Brooks Field
Brooks Air Force Base; Brooks Field
Part of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
San Antonio, Texas
	Weightless 2, a static display on Brooks City-Base commemorating the research done through the Aerospace Medical Division with astronaut. image_map= Brooks Air Force Base
Coordinates	29°20′24″N 98°26′20″W / 29.340°N 98.439°W
Type	Former Air Force Base
Site information
Owner	City of San Antonio, Texas
Controlled by	United States Air Force
Site history
Built	1918
In use	1919–2011
Garrison information
Current; commander	Eric L. Stephens
Garrison	311th Air Base Group
Occupants	USAF, City offices, commercial tenants

Sidney Johnson Brooks, Jr., the first flying cadet to lose his life in San Antonio during flight training in the World War I period.

Hangar 9 stands as the only World War I era aircraft hangar listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Hangar 9 was built as a "temporary" structure in 1918 when Brooks Field was established as the location for the Signal Corps Aviation School.

Brooks Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility located in San Antonio, Texas, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Downtown San Antonio.

In 2002, Brooks Air Force Base was renamed Brooks City-Base when the property was conveyed to the Brooks Development Authority as part of a project between local, state, and federal government. The Brooks Development Authority is now the owner and operator of the property, and is redeveloping it as a science, business, and technology center; the U.S. Air Force was the largest tenant at Brooks City-Base before the departure of its operations in 2011.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ William R. Evinger: Directory of Military Bases in the U.S., Oryx Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1991, p. 147.
^ World War I Group, Historical Division, Special Staff, United States Army, Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War (1917–1919)
^ Evinger, 1991; the name was derived from the flight instruction system in use at the time at the field.

[1] William R. Evinger: Directory of Military Bases in the U.S., Oryx Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1991, p. 147.

[2] World War I Group, Historical Division, Special Staff, United States Army, Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War (1917–1919)

[3] Evinger, 1991; the name was derived from the flight instruction system in use at the time at the field.

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