Sheppard Air Force Base

Established: 1941
Base Type: Air Force

About

For eight decades, Sheppard Air Force Base has been one of the Air Force’s premier training bases, one of the few to host both technical and flying training missions. Today Sheppard produces more technical training graduates—67,000 per year—than any other Air Force tech training base. In fact, it still produces almost half of all technical training graduates. Sheppard also plays a critical international role in developing U.S. and allied airpower, producing highly trained combat pilots for the NATO Alliance, as well as foreign enlisted and officer personnel in a variety of disciplines, from every permanently inhabited continent on the globe.

Sheppard Air Force Base originally provided aircrew and aircraft mechanics training during World War II. Today, Sheppard is the largest and most diverse training base in Air Education and Training Command. It is the only Air Force base that is home to both technical and flying training. Sheppard trains pilots and maintainers, as well as the propulsion, avionics maintenance, flight equipment, fuels, munitions and aerospace ground equipment specialists, needed to keep planes in the air, and the civil engineers, plumbers, telecommunications specialists and electricians needed to keep bases running. Sheppard is also home to the Air Force’s largest technical training wing and the world’s only internationally manned and managed flying training program.

Gate and Hours

Main Gate: 24/7
Missile Road Gate: 24/7
Clinic Gate Inbound: 0600-0800 M-F, Outbound: 1600-1800 M-F

Quick Reference

Chapel
(940) 676-0014

Dining- Burger King
Avenue E Third Ave,
Sheppard AFB, TX 76311
(940) 855-7406

Education Office
(940) 676-6231

Equal Opportunity
(940) 676-4393

Family Advocacy
(940) 676-2271
(940) 676-7293

Military/Family Readiness
(940) 676-4358

Finance
(940) 676-4864

Housing
(940) 676-1840

Legal Services
(940) 676-4262

Public Affairs
(940) 676-2732

Fire Station
(940) 676-2310

Post Office
(940) 855-3319

Base Surroundings

Wichita Falls Railroad Museum
500 9th St,
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
(940) 723-2661

Lucy Park
100 Sunset Dr,
Wichita Falls, TX 76302
(940) 761-7490

Castaway Cove Waterpark
1000 Central Fwy E,
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
(940) 322-5500

Sikes Senter Mall
3111 Midwestern Pkwy,
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
(940) 692-5501

Backporch Drafthouse
4214 Kell W Blvd,
Wichita Falls, TX 76309
(940) 234-7777

Texas Roadhouse
311 Lawrence Rd,
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
(940) 687-7427

McBrides Steakhouse
4537 Maplewood Ave,
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
(940) 696-0250

Cinemark 14 Wichita Falls
2915 Glenwood Ave,
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
(940) 716-9933