WARNER ROBINS

city, Houston county, central Georgia, U.S. It lies 17 miles (27 km) south of Macon. It originated as the small railside village of Wellston, which rapidly developed after the establishment in 1940 of Robins Air Force Base, once the home of the "Flying Tigers" and now headquarters for the Air Force Reserve. The city's name honours Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins (1882-1940), a pioneer of the U.S. Army Air Corps. The base is the major economic factor, but the city also has light industrial development. Inc. 1943. Pop. (1990) city, 43,861; Macon-Warner Robins MSA, 291,079; (1994 est.) city, 47,694; Macon-Warner Robins MSA, 307,420.