Scott Air Force Base
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![Scott Field Curtiss JN-4D configured as an air ambulance.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Scott_Field_JN-4_Ambulance1401.jpg")
![Scott Field - 1930. Still mostly in its World War I design, note the Eight World War I hangars in a straight line along the flightline. The addition of the large hydrogen plant with storage tank to support the airship mission.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Scott_Field_-_19301401.jpg")
Scott Air Force Base (IATA: BLV, ICAO: KBLV, FAALID: BLV) is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon. Scott Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entered World War I in April 1917. It is part of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), and is also the headquarters of the U.S. Transportation Command, a Unified Combatant Command that coordinates transportation across all the services.