ON AN INTERCEPT HDG FOR ILS; NIGHT VFR; FLC MISTOOK AFB ARPT AS THEIR DEST ARPT AND COMMENCED APCH. AFTER NOTING THEIR LOC MOVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION; BOTH FLC REALIZED THEY WERE APCHING ANOTHER ARPT; DID A GAR; COORDINATED WITH APCH CTL AND LANDED UNEVENTFULLY.

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WHILE DSNDING INTO HOU (HOBBY) ARPT FROM 6000 FT TO 2100 FT; HOU APCH CTL INSTRUCTED ME TO TURN R TO A HDG OF 280 DEGS AND INTERCEPT THE RWY 30L ILS AT HOU. WHILE DSNDING AND TURNING; WE BOTH SAW THE RWY 30 AT ELLINGTON AFB AND MISTOOK THIS RWY FOR HOU'S RWY 30L. AT THIS TIME; I TOLD HOU THAT I HAD A VISUAL ON RWY 30L AT HOU. WE WERE CLRED FOR A VISUAL AT HOU RWY 30L. REALIZING THAT WE WERE HIGH FOR A SAFE LNDG; I ASKED FOR A 270 DEG L TURN. ALSO; AT THIS TIME; THE LOC MOVED QUICKLY FROM L TO R. WE BOTH REALIZED THAT THIS WAS NOT RWY 30L AT HOU AND WE BEGAN TO EXECUTE A MISSED APCH; NEVER DSNDING BELOW 1200 FT MSL. AT THIS TIME; HOU APCH INFORMED US THAT WE WERE LINING UP WITH ELLINGTON AFB AND TO CLB TO 3000 FT AND TURN L TO 270 DEG HDG. WE CONTINUED TO HOU AND PROCEEDED TO MAKE A SAFE APCH AND LNDG. LOOKING BACK OVER THIS INCIDENT; I THINK IT WOULD HAVE HELPED IF HOU APCH CTL HAD ADVISED US OF ELLINGTON'S RWY 36 BEING ALL LIT UP AND ALSO; IF THE RWY LIGHTS AT HOU WERE AT 'STEP 5' WHICH THEY WERE NOT UNTIL HOU ADVISED US THAT WE WERE LINING UP AT ELLINGTON.