Hurlburt Field

Hurlburt Field
Mary Esther, Florida in United States
An AC-130U Spooky over Hurlburt Field
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Coordinates	30°25′40″N 086°41′22″W / 30.42778°N 86.68944°W / 30.42778; -86.68944 (Hurlburt Field)
Type	US Air Force base
Site information
Owner	Department of Defense
Operator	US Air Force
Controlled by	Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)
Condition	Operational
Website	www.hurlburt.af.mil
Site history
Built	1942 (1942)
In use	1942 – present
Garrison information
Current commander	Colonel Allison “Angel of Death” Black
Garrison	1st Special Operations Wing
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: HRT, ICAO: KHRT, FAA LID: HRT, WMO: 747770
Elevation	11.5 metres (38 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 18/36 2,926 metres (9,600 ft) concrete
Helipads Number Length and surface H18/H36 490.1 metres (1,608 ft) concrete
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Hurlburt Field (ICAO: KHRT, FAA LID: HRT) is a United States Air Force installation located in Okaloosa County, Florida, immediately west of the town of Mary Esther. It is part of the greater Eglin Air Force Base reservation and is home to Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), the 1st Special Operations Wing (1 SOW), the USAF Special Operations School (USAFSOS) and the Air Combat Command's (ACC) 505th Command and Control Wing. It was named for First Lieutenant Donald Wilson Hurlburt, who died in a crash at Eglin. The installation is nearly 6,700 acres (27 km²) and employs nearly 8,000 military personnel.

This facility is assigned a three-letter location identifier of HRT by the Federal Aviation Administration, but it does not have an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code (the IATA assigned HRT to RAF Linton-on-Ouse in England).^[2][3][4][5]