Yokota Air Base is a joint Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and United States Air Force (USAF) base located in the western part of Tokyo, Japan. It serves as the primary Western Pacific airlift hub for the U.S. military and hosts the headquarters for both U.S. Forces Japan and the JASDF Air Defense Command.
I was the communications planner/program manager at Yokota for the years 1996 through 1999. Among the neat aviation-related things I got to do were the installation and commissioning of the runway 18 ILS ... a ssytem we physically removed from Minot AFB Montana, shipped across the pacific and put back to good use at Yokota. Mnay civilian plots have been through Yokota as a significant part of its traffic is contract passenger and cargo flights and I recall a number of times when I was there that Northwest used it to land when weather gave them a problem at Narita
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— @I_Am_So_Handsome at Yokota Air Base, Japan Reply
Yokota Air Base is a joint Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and United States Air Force (USAF) base located in the western part of Tokyo, Japan. It serves as the primary Western Pacific airlift hub for the U.S. military and hosts the headquarters for both U.S. Forces Japan and the JASDF Air Defense Command.
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🔗 Tue, 17 Jul 2007
— @XingR at Yokota Air Base, Japan Reply
I was the communications planner/program manager at Yokota for the years 1996 through 1999. Among the neat aviation-related things I got to do were the installation and commissioning of the runway 18 ILS ... a ssytem we physically removed from Minot AFB Montana, shipped across the pacific and put back to good use at Yokota. Mnay civilian plots have been through Yokota as a significant part of its traffic is contract passenger and cargo flights and I recall a number of times when I was there that Northwest used it to land when weather gave them a problem at Narita