Luke Air Force Base

Luke Air Force Base
Glendale, Arizona in the United States of America
The 56th Operations Group flagship F-16 Fighting Falcon (84-1297) welcomes Luke Air Force Base's first F-35 Lightning II (11-5030) to the base on 10 March 2014.
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Coordinates	33°32′06″N 112°22′59″W / 33.53500°N 112.38306°W / 33.53500; -112.38306
Type	US Air Force base
Site information
Owner	Department of Defense
Operator	US Air Force
Controlled by	Air Education and Training Command (AETC)
Website	www.luke.af.mil
Site history
Built	1941 (1941) (as Luke Field)
Built by	Del E. Webb Construction Company
In use	1941 – present
Garrison information
Garrison	56th Fighter Wing (host) 944th Fighter Wing
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: LUF, ICAO: KLUF, FAA LID: LUF, WMO: 722785
Elevation	331 m (1,085 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 03L/21R 3,052 m (10,012 ft) asphalt 03R/21L 3,019 m (9,904 ft) concrete
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Luke Air Force Base (IATA: LUF, ICAO: KLUF, FAA LID: LUF) is a United States Air Force base in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.^[2] It is located 7 miles (6.1 nmi; 11 km) west of the central business district of Glendale, and 15 miles (13 nmi; 24 km) west of Phoenix.

Luke AFB is a major training base of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), training pilots in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. On 31 March 2011, the F-35 Lightning II was announced to be replacing the F-16 as the primary training aircraft at Luke, although the date of deployment of the new aircraft to Luke and reorganization plans were not announced. On 16 July 2013, the Air Force announced that Luke AFB will house a total of 144 F-35A Lightning IIs. The first F-35A Lightning II arrived to the base on March 10, 2014.^[3][4]

It is a designated superfund site due to a number of soil and groundwater contaminants.