Offutt Air Force Base

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | 356 words | Copyright

Offutt Air Force Base U.S. military installation, 1,907 acres (772 hectares), E Neb., S of Omaha; est. 1896 as Fort Crook, an army base. Converted to an airbase in the early 1900s and renamed in 1924, it is the headquarters of the Strategic Command, the successor to the Strategic Air Command . The Nebraska Museum of Aerospace History is on the base.

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