Nellis AFB 17th WPS art by Squadron Posters!

Nellis AFB 17th WPS

Name: Nellis AFB 17th WPS
Brand: Squadron Posters
SKU: SP01982
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Nellis AFB 17th WPS poster art.

Flying the F-15E Strike Eagle, the squadron accomplishes its mission by providing graduate-level instructor academic and flying courses to USAF Combat Air Forces (CAF). The squadron conducts extensive technical off-station training and liaises with CAF units. The 17th emblem, modified from the one adopted in 1917, consists of a Great White Snowy Owl in front of a black triangle with a blue background. Because of its distinctive Owl Patch, the squadron’s nickname is the Hooters.

Massive 40×60 canvas wraps and framed canvas wraps available upon request!

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SKU: SP01982 Categories: 17th Weapons Squadron, Aircraft Posters, Blue, CG, Commissioned Art Request, Creech AFB, F-15E Strike Eagle, Fighter, Max Shirkov, modifySB, Nellis AFB, PC Gaddis, Purple, U.S. Air Force, Weapons School Tags: art deco, attack, aviation poster, creech, las, military poster, nv, operations, persistant, posters, Reaper, recon, reconnaissance, retro, rpa, vegas, vintage

Design by Max Shirkov

Texas
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Nellis AFB 17th WPS vintage style military aviation art by – Squadron Posters!

Nellis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in “Military Operations Area airspace”, associated with the nearby Nevada Test and Training Range. The base also has the Combined Air and Space Operations Center-Nellis.

After World War I, Nevada and other western inland states were surveyed by Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Sgt. William B. Whitefield for landing sites, and by “mid-1925 the Air Service possessed information on nearly thirty-five hundred landing places, including more than twenty-eight hundred emergency landing areas, in the United States.” The 1929 airfield (dirt runway, water well, and small operations shack) north of Las Vegas, operated by the 1925 Western Air Express for Contract Air Mail Route #4, LA-to-SLC—was used by the Army Air Corps in the 1930s for training flights. After the Invasion of Poland in 1939, the “western site board” had located a southern Nevada area “near Tonopah, Nev” by April 1940 for a military range, and in October 1940, Air Corps Major David Schlatter surveyed the southwest United States for a military airfield. “The 60 × 90 mile area at Tonopah was transferred to the War Department on 29 October 1940” by Executive Order 8578. Check out this stunning Nellis AFB 17th WPS art by Squadron Posters!

Squadron Posters offers the world’s largest collection of Squadron Specific Art! Check out our stunning vintage style military aviation themed travel posters, honoring All Branches of Service. Our artwork not only represents aircraft, armored cavalry, or ships, it represents adventure and travel. This means we create posters featuring the Space Needle, New Orleans, the Golden Gate Bridge, Mt Rushmore and the National Mall. Of course, McChord AFB isn’t in Seattle but if you’re stationed there your adventure surely involves the Space Needle! (See our Facebook page HERE)

This is what makes Squadron Posters different–it’s about remembering where you’ve lived and what you’ve seen with a vintage themed travel poster. – Collect your travels and tell your story!

Size	12×16 Canvas Wrap, 16×20 Canvas Wrap, 16×20 Canvas Wrap Framed, 16×20 Rolled Canvas, 20×30 Canvas Wrap, 20×30 Canvas Wrap Framed, 20×30 Rolled Canvas, 32×48 Canvas Wrap