Creech Air Force Base

Creech Air Force Base is located in Clark County, Nevada, near Indian Springs. The site was established in 1941 as Indian Springs Airport, with permanent facility construction beginning in March 1942. During World War II, the airfield was utilized for air-to-air gunnery training and hosted B-17 Flying Fortress and T-6 Texan aircraft. The installation closed in 1947 and reopened in 1948, receiving its first assigned Air Force unit in 1950. Designated Indian Springs Air Force Base in 1951, it supported nuclear testing at the Nevada Proving Grounds through 1962. The facility was renamed in June 2005 in honor of General Wilbur L. Creech.

The base is operated by the Air Combat Command and functions as a command and control center for remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) systems. Its role involves the management of daily overseas contingency operations. The 432nd Wing provides installation command authority and hosts the 432nd Operations Group and the 732nd Operations Group. Other stationed units include the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron, the 26th Weapons Squadron, and the 926th Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command. The Royal Air Force No. 39 Squadron is also based at the facility. Furthermore, the installation serves as the training site for the USAF Thunderbirds and an emergency divert airfield for the Nevada Test and Training Range.

Infrastructure includes the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab, the UAV-Logistic and Training Facility, and the Joint Unmanned Aerial Systems Center of Excellence. The base hosts multiple squadrons of MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicles. Facilities also include aerial warfare ground equipment and specialized ground stations for global mission control.