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Isn't Travis AFB for transport planes and tankers?

This isn't like someone is buying land beside Groom Lake or Skunkworks...

Yes, and it's also the home of E6-B Mercury "TACAMO" communications aircraft operated by the U.S. Navy:

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/milita...

This unit pretty much represents the last remaining Navy presence in the Bay Area. Ironic, given the history of the Navy there, beginning with the establishment of the shipyard on Mare Island before the Civil War, and the first Navy radio station on the West Coast in 1904:

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collec...

Interestingly, for my fellow aviation buffs, the Navy is considering replacing the E-6Bs (built upon old Boeing C-135s—military 707s) with new C-130J planes, with stretched fuselage and those cool scimitar propellers. They're more fuel-efficient, I suspect, and they can operate out of rough airstrips.

https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/breaking-c-130-tacamo-...

Interestingly the predecessors of the current E-6B TACAMO platform are C-130's also. These EC-130Q's were based on C-130H. Full circle again.

But they only have a small detachment there. The main E-6B/TACAMO stuff is at Tinker AFB Oklahoma

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