[3] Travis AFB has a major impact on the community as a number of military families and retirees have chosen to make Fairfield their permanent home.

It is the largest employer in the city and Solano County as well, and the massive Travis workforce has a local economic impact of more than $1 billion annually.

The base is also host to the David Grant USAF Medical Center, a 265-bed, $200 million Air Force teaching hospital, which serves both in-service and retired military personnel.

The base's primary mission during World War II was ferrying aircraft and supplies to the Pacific Theater.

For the next nine years, airlift operations became secondary while Travis served as home for SAC bombers such as the B-29 Superfortress, B-36 Peacemaker, and eventually, the B-52 Stratofortress.

During this period, new hangars appeared, runways were added and widened, and permanent barracks and family living quarters were built.

[7] Over the next three decades, Travis would become known as the "Gateway to the Pacific" in its role as the principal military airlift hub in the western United States.

Initially equipped with legacy C-124 Globemaster and C-133 Cargomaster aircraft from the 1501st, the year 1966 would also see the 60 MAW introduce the Air Force's new all-jet heavy airlifter, the C-141 Starlifter.

In 1997, the 349 AMW (Assoc) also became part of the newly established Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) while remaining operationally "gained" by AMC.

[8] In March 2018, a vehicle filled with propane tanks rammed through the base's main gate and drove into a ditch.

[13] In 2023, the base hosted the annual California preparedness exercise (Operation Golden Phoenix)[14] On July 28, 2023, Travis AFB received its first KC-46A Pegasus; which will equip all its former KC-10 squadrons.

[16] Between 2018 and 2023, Flannery Associates LLC purchased over 50,000 acres of land near the air base, prompting investigations into the company's beneficial ownership and widespread media attention.

In August 2023, it was revealed that Flannery Associates was a subsidiary of California Forever, which planned to build a city on the land.

[citation needed] In addition, the base's former Strategic Air Command Alert Facility is now a U.S. Navy complex that typically supports two transient Navy E-6B Mercury TACAMO aircraft assigned to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron THREE (VQ-3) Detachment and normally home-based at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.

The base is also host to David Grant USAF Medical Center, a 265-bed, $200 million Air Force teaching hospital, which serves both in-service and retired military personnel.

It generates 24-hour-a-day strategic airlift to support four flying squadrons and ensures readiness of personnel and equipment for deployment.

It generates 24-hour-a-day strategic airlift to support two flying squadrons and ensures readiness of personnel and equipment for deployment.

[21] Furniture and nails were also found on the road leading to the South Gate of Travis AFB on the morning of March 24.