Sandia Base
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Sandia Base was established as a training depot for mechanics in 1943. The base is located not far from Kirtland Air Force Base, near the city of Albuquerque. Some of the flight support and facilities for Los Alamos Laboratory, which was conducting nuclear testing, were moved to Sandia Base.
After World War II, when the base was no longer being needed for training, Sandia became a storage facility for run-down and surplus aircraft. But the base continued to develop and test special weapons, and became known as Sandia National Laboratories which still exists in the same location today. Nuclear tests continued from Sandia and its neighbor Kirtland until 1958, when the U.S. agreed to a moratorium on nuclear testing.
It is also said that the Sandia Base is some kind of underground base, supposedly only a few miles west of Dead Horse Flat, near Silent Canyon, Nevada. There is also a rumour of a "hidden" runway around that area.