Kirtland in Pop Culture
- The 1943 RKO Radio Pictures film Bombardier was primarily filmed at the base.
- In the science-fiction television show The X-Files, part of the episode "Space" takes place on the base.
- It was mentioned in the film Contact as being the place where AWACS planes originated from.
- The character Jane Margolis in the AMC television show Breaking Bad says in the episode "Phoenix" of season 2 that she draws tattoos for "college kids and airmen from Kirtland."
- Kirtland AFB becomes the temporary U.S. capital after a nuclear blast destroys Washington, D.C. and four other cities in Lee Boyland's "Clash of Civilizations" trilogy.
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