Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Greene and Montgomery counties, eight miles northeast of the central business district of Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is also adjacent to Fairborn, Riverside and Beavercreek. The base is named after the Wright brothers, who used the Huffman Prairie portion of what became Wright-Patterson as their testing ground, and Frank Stuart Patterson, son and nephew of the co-founders of National Cash Register, who was killed on June 19, 1918, in the crash of his Airco DH.4 at Wilbur Wright Field. Wright-Patterson AFB apartments for rent comparison page shows most up to date rent information on Wright-Patterson AFB apartments and houses. Rent information is obtained from multiple rental sources but we cannot guarantee their accuracy.