Youngstown - Warren Air Reserve Station Youngstown - Warren Air Reserve Station is a military facility located in Vienna Center , Ohio , 11 miles north of Youngstown and 10 miles east of Warren , in Trumbull County , Ohio , in the United States . The installation is located at Youngstown - Warren Regional Airport . The host wing for the installation is the 910th Airlift Wing ( 910 AW ) , an Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ) unit operationally gained by the Air Mobility Command ( AMC ) . Mission . Youngstown ARS is located at the Youngstown - Warren Regional Airport . Its primary mission is to serve as home of the 910th Airlift Wing , and its twelve ( 12 ) C - 130H Hercules aircraft operated by two ( 2 ) C - 130 squadrons . The 910 AW is a unique organization in the Air Force in that a portion of the wing ' s mission is devoted to the Department of Defense ' s only fixed - wing aerial spray mission . Staffing . The 910 AW has nearly 1 , 450 military personnel – approximately 300 Air Reserve Technician ( ART ) personnel , augmented by approximately 1 , 150 " traditional " part - time Air Force Reservists and 150 full - time civilians . The installation also hosts a Navy Operational Support Center and a collocated Marine Corps Reserve Center that are home to nearly 400 Navy and Marine Corps Reservists . History . The history of Youngstown ARS dates to the early 1950s when it was originally opened as Youngstown Air Force Base . Beginning in 1951 , the Air Defense Command ( ADC ) began negotiations with the local community to construct an Air Force Base to defend the north - central United States . Negotiations were finalized and the new base was dedicated on 11 August 1952 . The housekeeping unit of the $ 10 million air defense base was the 88th Air Base Squadron with the ADC 86th Fighter - Interceptor Squadron being the operational unit flying F - 84C Thunderjets . Assigned to ADC ' s Central Air Defense Force , the 86th would remain at Youngstown until 1960 , eventually upgrading to the F - 102 Delta Dagger . On 18 August 1955 , the 30th Air Division , 79th Fighter Group ( Air Defense ) was assigned . On 26 May 1952 , the Air Force Reserve ' s 26th Fighter - Bomber Squadron was assigned to Youngstown . Formerly a Troop Carrier Squadron , the unit had been activated during the Korean War and after being inactivated , was assigned to Youngstown as a reserve T - 33 Shooting Star squadron . The 26th FBS received F - 86H Sabres in 1958 , but shortly afterward was inactivated and redesignated as the 757th Troop Carrier Squadron . The F - 86s that had been received , but never flown while they were going through acceptance checks , and the T - 33s , which were flying , were taken out and replaced by C - 119 Flying Boxcar s In 1959 , the need for active duty Air Defense Command bases and regular Air Force fighter - interceptor operations were diminishing and the intent to scale back operations at Youngstown AFB was announced on 28 October 1959 . The Air Force transferred command of Youngstown AFB to Continental Air Command ( ConAC ) ( now the Air Force Reserve Command ) on 1 March 1960 and the 79th Fighter Group was inactivated that date . As Youngstown - Warren ARS , the installation has 59 operational buildings , primarily aviation maintenance , training and administrative facilities . While there are dormitories for temporary lodging , there is no permanent housing on the installation . The current host wing , the 910th Airlift Wing ( 910 AW ) traces its lineage at Youngstown to 1963 when it was established as the 910th Troop Carrier Group flying the C - 119 Flying Boxcar . 1969 . The group later trained as a forward air control / tactical air support group from 1970 – 1971 , as an air support special operations group from 1971 – 1973 , and as a fighter group from 1973 – 1981 , during which time it operated the A - 37 Dragonfly and U - 3 Blue Canoe and was operationally gained by the Tactical Air Command ( TAC ) . It converted to an airlift mission in 1981 and received its first C - 130 aircraft 27 March 1981 , at which point it became the 910th Tactical Airlift Group and operationally gained by the Military Airlift Command ( MAC ) . In January 1992 , the 910 TAG became the only full - time , fixed - wing aerial spray unit in the Department of Defense . In June of that year , as part of an Air Force - wide reorganization , MAC was disestablished and the unit was renamed the 910th Airlift Group , operationally - gained by the newly established Air Mobility Command ( AMC ) . In 1994 , the Air Force Reserve became a separate Major Command ( MAJCOM ) in the Air Force organizational structure as Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ) . Per AFRC direction , the unit was renamed the 910th Airlift Wing ( 910 AW ) while still retaining its operational relationship with AMC .