Question: what air force based named in honor of Carl Benjamin "Ben" Eielson is located 26 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska?

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Political party strength in Alaska has varied over the years.  The communities of Juneau, Sitka, downtown and midtown Anchorage, the areas surrounding the College/University of Alaska Fairbanks campus and Ester and the "Alaska Bush" – rural, sparsely populated Alaska – stand out as Democratic strongholds, while the Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, parts of Anchorage, and Fairbanks (including North Pole and Eielson Air Force Base), Ketchikan, Wrangell, and Petersburg serve as the Republican Party electoral base.  As of 2004, well over half of all registered voters have chosen "Non-Partisan" or "Undeclared" as their affiliation, despite recent attempts to close primaries. Cape Thompson is a headland on the Chukchi Sea coast of Alaska.  It is located 26 miles to the southeast of Point Hope, Arctic Slope.  It is part of the Chukchi Sea unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The Alaska Railroad (reporting mark ARR) is a Class II railroad which extends from Seward and Whittier, in the south of the state of Alaska, in the United States, to Fairbanks (passing through Anchorage), and beyond to Eielson Air Force Base and Fort Wainwright in the interior of that state.  Uniquely (for the US), it carries both freight and passengers throughout its system, including Denali National Park.  The railroad has a mainline over 470 mi long and is well over 500 mi including branch lines and siding tracks.  It is currently owned by the state of Alaska.  The railroad is connected to the contiguous 48 via three rail barges that sail between the Port of Whittier, Alaska and Harbor Island in Seattle (the Alaska Railroad-owned Alaska Rail Marine, from Whittier to Seattle, and the CN Rail-owned Aqua Train, from Whittier to Prince Rupert, British Columbia) but does not currently have a direct, land-based connection with any other railroad lines on the North American network.  In 2016, the company suffered a net loss of $4.3 million on revenues of $169.8 million, holding $1.1 billion in total assets. Moose Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.  As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 747.  It is part of the 'Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area'.  Moose Creek is located south of Fairbanks, Alaska along the Richardson Highway.  Moose Creek is bordered by Eielson Air Force Base to the south, the Tanana River to the west, and the Chena River Flood Control Project to the north. The 343d Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit.  Its last assignment was with Pacific Air Forces at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, where it was inactivated on 20 August 1993.  The unit was formed at Eielson as the 343d Composite Wing and activated in October 1981 to replace the 5010th Combat Support Group.  It operated both fighter and forward air control aircraft.  In 1991, it also became the administrator for periodic Exercise Cope Thunder operations, which moved to Alaska from the Philippines after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo resulted in the evacuation of units from Clark Air Base When the wing was inactivated, it was replaced at Eielson by the 354th Fighter Wing. Exercise Red Flag is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.  Red Flag – Alaska is held at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, being a successor to the previous COPE THUNDER exercise series in the Western Pacific and Alaska.  Since 1975, air crews from the United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy (USN), United States Marine Corps (USMC), United States Army (USA) and numerous NATO or other allied nations' air forces take part in one of several Red Flag exercises held during the year, each of which is two weeks in duration. On 14 February 1950, a Convair B-36B, Air Force Serial Number "44-92075" assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing at Carswell Air Force Base, crashed in northern British Columbia after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb.  This was the first such nuclear weapon loss in history.  The B-36 had been en route from Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska to Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, Texas, more than 3000 miles south-east, on a mission that included a simulated nuclear attack on San Francisco. Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EIL, ICAO: PAEI, FAA LID: EIL) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska and just southeast of Moose Creek, Alaska.  It was established in 1943 as Mile 26 Satellite Field and taken off deployment in 2007.  It has been a Superfund site since 1989. The 168th Air Refueling Squadron (168 ARS) is a unit of the Alaska Air National Guard 168th Air Refueling Wing located at Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska.  The 168th is equipped with the KC-135R Stratotanker. Carl Benjamin "Ben" Eielson (July 20, 1897 – November 9, 1929) was an American aviator, bush pilot and explorer.  Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska is named in his honor.

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 Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska is named in his honor. Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EIL, ICAO: PAEI, FAA LID: EIL) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska and just southeast of Moose Creek, Alaska.