Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base is a former military airport, now a joint civil-military airport, located in Westhampton, 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Westhampton Beach, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. It is approximately 80 miles (130 km) east of New York City.
Known as Suffolk County Air Force Base until 1969, then Suffolk County Air National Guard Base until 1991, when it was renamed in honor of Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, a flying ace in both World War II and the Korean War, who was the commander of the 52nd Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Suffolk County AFB from 1964 through November 1967 when he retired.
Today, the airport is used by the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing (106 RQW), an Air Combat Command (ACC)-gained unit.
The airport's collocated civil operations operate at Francis S. Gabreski Airport.
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