Keith Howard, co-owner of contractor Daystar Transportation LLC of London, Ohio, used a crane to back the 25-ton C-130 body into the building. Daystar left Texas with the plane a week earlier.
Another C-130 fuselage, a C-17 and a Boeing 767 aircraft body will also be moved to the site within months to support training of the aeromedical teams when it starts up at Wright-Patterson in May.
It is part of the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine that is moving to Wright-Patterson from Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas. The school trains Air Force medical personnel and processes medical and environmental samples from across the Air Force, working in some cases with the nation’s civilian Centers for Disease Control.
The School of Aerospace Medicine is continuing operations while it is gradually moved from San Antonio. Classes are being taught and laboratories are operating in temporary space, respectively, in the Kettering Business Park and modular trailers on the base, even while other personnel are still operating in San Antonio.
It is one of the major programs being relocated to Wright-Patterson as part of the nation’s 2005 base realignment and closure (BRAC) decisions to close some bases and centralize programs at others.
The aerospace medicine school will eventually have about 250 active-duty military personnel, 250 civilian employees and 250 contractor employees at Wright-Patterson when the move is completed later this year. Currently, about 200 military personnel and 100 civilians are at Wright-Patterson, plus contractors, said Col. Chuck Fisher, the school’s commander.
The school is hiring to fill vacancies at Wright-Patterson, Fisher said. Job opportunities are posted on the federal government’s Web site at www.usajobs.com.
The 711th Human Performance Wing and the human effectiveness directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory will also occupy the Human Performance Wing complex.
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