Peoria Air National Guard Base


 * See: General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport for civil airport information

Peoria Air National Guard Base is the home base of the Illinois Air National Guard's 182d Airlift Wing (182 AW), an Air National Guard unit operationally-gained by the Air Mobility Command.

Overview
The 182d Airlift Wing (AW) of the Illinois Air National Guard occupies 339 acre of leased land, separated into two parcels of 334 and 5 acre respectively. All utility systems on the 5 acre parcel are already privatized. Both parcels of leased land are on the General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport, located in an outlying suburban area near Bartonville, Illinois and Bellevue, Illinois (or, approximately six miles southwest of Peoria, Illinois, which is a part of north central Illinois).

The mission of the 182d AW is to provide air transportation of personnel and equipment to deployed locations. The unit currently flies the C-130H3 Hercules. The 182 AW occupies five administrative and 30 industrial buildings, totaling approximately 413,406 sqft with 238 full-time personnel. A unit training drill is conducted once a month and results in a surge of up to a total of 1200 personnel.

BRAC 2005 realigned the 182 AW from a C-130E to a C-130H3 airlift wing.