Norton Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility 2 miles east of downtown San Bernardino in San Bernardino County, California. For the majority of its operational lifetime, Norton was a logistics depot and heavy-lift transport facility for a variety of military aircraft, equipment and supplies as part of Air Materiel/Air Force Logistics Command, then as part of …Norton Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility 2 miles east of downtown San Bernardino in San Bernardino County, California. For the majority of its operational lifetime, Norton was a logistics depot and heavy-lift transport facility for a variety of military aircraft, equipment and supplies as part of Air Materiel/Air Force Logistics Command, then as part of Military Airlift/Air Mobility Command.