Columbus Air Force Base (CBM) Lowndes County (MS)

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United States Air Force

General Information

Columbus Air Force Base (CBM) is located approximately 9 miles north of Columbus, Mississippi, and was established in 1941 as Air Corps Advanced Flying School, Columbus, Mississippi.

The host unit at Columbus is the 14th Flying Training Wing (14 FTW) assigned to the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The 14 FTW's mission is to provide specialized undergraduate pilot training for U.S. Air Force and allied officers.

Columbus AFB has been training Air Force pilots since World War II, and that mission continues today. The base closed after the war and remained inactive until 1951 when it was reopened as a contract flying school to train pilots during the Korean War. Four years later, the base was transferred from Air Training Command to Strategic Air Command. Columbus became home to a SAC strategic wing with a KC-135 Stratotanker squadron and a B-52 Stratofortress squadron in the late 1950s. This wing was later redesignated a bombardment wing in the 1960s. In 1969, the SAC bomber mission at Columbus was inactivated and the base transferred back to the then Air Training Command as an Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) base. Columbus AFB then resumed the mission for which it originally activated, training pilots, and has continued to do so for the past 40 years.

About half the pilots in the Air Force today went through basic and primary flight training at Columbus AFB.

14th Flying Training Wing

14th Operations Group (14 OG)
- 37th Flying Training Squadron (37 FTS) T-6 Texan II "Bengal Tigers"
- 41st Flying Training Squadron (41 FTS) T-6 Texan II "Flying Buzzsaws"
- 43d Flying Training Squadron (43 FTS) T-6 Texan II, T-1 Jayhawk, and T-38 Talon
- 48th Flying Training Squadron (48 FTS) T-1 Jayhawk "Alley Cats"
- 49th Fighter Training Squadron (49 FTS)T-38 Talon "Black Knights"
- 50th Flying Training Squadron (50 FTS) T-38 Talon "Strikn' Snakes
- 14th Operations Support Squadron (14 OSS)
- 14th Student Squadron (14 STUS)

14th Mission Support Group (14 MSG)
- 14th Civil Engineering Squadron (14 CES)
- 14th Communications Squadron (14 CS)
- 14th Contracting Squadron (14 CONS)
- 14th Logistics Readiness Squadron (14 LRS)
- 14th Security Forces Squadron (14 SFS)
- 14th Mission Support Squadron (14 MSS)
14th Medical Group (14 MDG)

Additionally, the 14th Comptroller Squadron (14 CPTS) reports directly to the 14 TFW.

Radio Communications

Land Mobile Radio (LMR)

All land mobile radio communications uses site 1-13 of this system.

Little information about this site is available. PLEASE CONTRIBUTE!!!

United States Air Force (3D6)

Site	Name	Freqs
013 (D)	Columbus Air Force Base	406.362500	406.562500	406.762500	406.962500a	407.962500a	408.762500a	410.362500c

United States Air Force (3D6) Unknown Talkgroups by Site

Aircraft Operations

Comm Card

Common Frequencies/Local Channels (as of September, 2013)
Preset	UHF	Facility	VHF	Mode	Notes
01	275.800	CBM Ground	12.900	AM
02	374.100	Sunfish	143.000	AM
03	379.925	CBM Tower	126.650	AM
04	291.650	CBM Departure	132.050	AM
05	279.550	West MOA Control	128.500	AM
06	275.400	West MOA Monitor	134.400	AM
07	239.250	North MOA Control	126.075	AM
08	282.200	North MOA Monitor		AM
09	273.550	Pickwick MOA Control	135.900	AM
10	343.625	Pickwick MOA Monitor	136.175	AM
11	294.700	High Shuttle Control	134.775	AM
12	252.100	Columbus SOF	140.970	AM
13	317.900	LIVEOAK		AM
14	323.275	RAPCON	135.600	AM
15	307.175	SFA		AM
16	307.800	CBM Approach	133.250	AM
17	320.400	ECHO MOA Monitor	120.800	AM
18	273.500	CBM ATIS	115.200	AM
19	269.550	Clearance/Delivery	126.250	AM
20	293.400	Jayhawk Ops	141.700	AM

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External Links

Columbus AFB Official Site