# Source: Hill AFB Utah Test and Training Range Fact Sheet

**Type:** source
**Status:** Useful
**Confidence:** High
**Source Type:** Official Fact Sheet
**URL:** https://www.hill.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/672497/utah-test-and-training-range/
**Publisher:** Hill Air Force Base, U.S. Air Force
**Accessed:** 2026-06-18
**Updated:** 2026-06-18

## Summary

Hill Air Force Base's official Utah Test and Training Range fact sheet describes UTTR's mission, airspace, land footprint, history, personnel, and range capabilities.

## Useful Claims

- The fact sheet describes UTTR as a Department of Defense Major Range and Test Facility Base.
- It says UTTR supports operational test and evaluation for weapons requiring a large safety footprint and is the only location capable of supporting overland cruise-missile testing.
- It says UTTR is used for air-to-air combat, air-to-ground inert and live practice bombing, and gunnery training by DoD aircrews.
- It places UTTR about 100 miles west of Hill Air Force Base in northwestern Utah and eastern Nevada.
- It identifies UTTR as the largest block of overland contiguous special-use airspace within the continental United States, measured from surface or near surface.
- The history section traces the range through Wendover, Hill, and Dugway range complexes and says Air Force Systems Command redesignated them as UTTR in 1979.

## Reliability Notes

This is official Air Force evidence and is strong for mission, capabilities, footprint, and institutional history. It should be paired with environmental, Tribal, local, and independent defense-infrastructure sources for impacts and contested land-use questions.

## Related Pages

- [Utah Test and Training Range](utah-test-and-training-range.md)
- [Dugway Proving Ground](dugway-proving-ground.md)