Altus was the location for the first season of the television show The Simple Life, starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
She was born Janice Meredith Holt on March 28, 1905, in Altus, Arkansas; both her parents were teachers.
Altus | Outdated restoration of aquatic ''A. altus'', by Charles R. Knight | Altus, Arkansas |
With the inactivation of SAC, the wing was reassigned to Air Mobility Command on 1 June 1992 and was inactivated on 1 October 1992 as part of the general drawdown of the USAF after the Cold War ended, its components subsequently merging with collocated 443d Airlift Wing at Altus to form the 97th Air Mobility Wing.
The Military Airlift Command (MAC) assumed command of the base from SAC and activated the 443d Military Airlift Wing (443 MAW), Training, to assume host wing responsibilities and to fly alongside the SAC aircraft that would become a tenant command at Altus.
The northern terminus was actually established in 1912 at Forgan, Oklahoma, then later rail service to Forgan ended in 1973, as Altus, Oklahoma became the northern terminus of the successor company.
The General Atomics ALTUS is an unmanned aerial vehicle, designed for scientific research, built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI).
The station's first transmitter was located at the studios east of Lawton, which was a relatively low-power unit that could reach viewers within a limited 55-mile radius that included Altus, Oklahoma to the west, Wichita Falls to the south, Anadarko, Oklahoma to the north and Ringling, Oklahoma to the east.
KWHW-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to serve Altus, Oklahoma, United States
After Heathen broke up in 1992 Altus moved to Germany along with his fellow ex-Heathen members Doug Piercy and Darren Minter.
Experiment stations currently operate in the Oklahoma cities of Stillwater, Goodwell, Woodward, Bessie, Lahoma, Haskell, Perkins, Chickasha, Fort Cobb, Altus, Mangum, Tipton, Lane, Bixby, and Idabel.