Tooele County assumed ownership of the airport and base buildings in 1998, and the County continues to operate the airfield as a public airport. It was closed by the Air Force in 1969, and the base was given to Wendover City in 1977. Īfter the war, Wendover was used for training exercises, gunnery range and as a research facility.
In 2009, a hangar at the base dubbed The Manhattan Project's Enola Gay Hangar was listed as one of the most endangered historic sites in the U.S. It was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that dropped the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. During World War II it was a training base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. Wendover Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Utah now known as Wendover Airport. Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 510: Unable to find the specified location map definition: 'Module:Location map/data/Utah' does not exist.Īrmy Airfield/Bombing Range/Test and Development B-29 Superfortress 'Enola Gay' and its crew, trained at Wendover Field.
