Tinker Air Force Base
Tinker Air Force Base (IATA: TIK, ICAO: KTIK) is a major U.S. Air Force base located in the southeast Oklahoma City area, directly south of the suburb of Midwest City, Oklahoma. The base has more than 26,000 military and civilian employees and is the largest single-site employer in the state of Oklahoma. The installation covers approx. 9 square miles (23 km2) and has 760 buildings with a building floor space of over 15,200,000 square feet (1,410,000 m2).[citation needed] The base is bounded by I-40 on the north and I-240 on the south. With the City of Oklahoma City and Oklahoma County owning several square miles of land adjacent to the base, Tinker is one of the few military bases in a major metropolitan area with room for expansion, and a community that supports expansion.
