Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California, Inventory of Cold War Properties

Summary

Inventoried and noted Cold War resources at Travis AFB are complex, and include five distinct physical locations, four on base and one off site (see Figures 2 and 3 in the report). At the installation are the 33-building AFSWP/SAC Q Area, also known as the West River Depot, the Fairfield AFS, and the 3083rd Aviation Depot Group (ADG), of 1951-1960, and the immediately adjacent SAC missile test stand sites and run-up shop of 1957-1962; the 10-building ADC alert and readiness area of 1952-1955, and the immediately adjacent U.S. Army Nike missile assembly shops of 1954/1959[67]; the SAC long-range bomber area of 1953-1955, with its related munitions storage area of the same period; and the SAC tanker readiness crew facility (molehole) and alert apron of 1958-1960. Off site is the Point Arena AFS, an AC&W radar squadron complex of 1951-1962. Located 100 direct miles to the northwest of Travis AFB on the California coast, the Point Arena facility is herein noted, but remains uninventoried. Point Arena is one of the 85 AC&W permanent radar complexes built during these years and is configured similarly to the inventoried AC&W radar sites at Scott, Charleston, and Grand Forks AFBs.

The total number of buildings and structures individually inventoried is 50, located at Travis AFB. The uninventoried Point Arena AC&W radar facilities are assumed to have originally included between-45 and 50 buildings, but the complex's current intactness is unevaluated herein. Buildings and structures are listed here in numerical real property order, and are identified by architect/engineer, original Cold War use, and date of design (see Figures 4a, 4b, and 4c in the report). Those properties interpreted as potentially eligible for the NRHP are bulleted, with summary discussion following the inventory list.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Travis Air Force Base Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management Archive - Documents, Images, and other Data

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Contact(s): Travis Air Force Base

Record Identifiers

Contract Number(s): DACA63-93-D-0014

Delivery Order No.(s): 089 (GMI project# 1114-089-F)

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