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Swiss Air Force bases

Switzerland built one of the densest military airfield networks in Europe and then closed most of it. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 26 airfields is on the Swiss Air Force page.

VaudPayerneThe main fighter base and the home of Fliegerstaffel 35 — the only Swiss base with Hornets on quick-reaction alert around the clock.Open the Payerne pageBernMeiringenHornets in a mountain cavern: the Bernese Oberland base whose hardened shelters are cut into the rock at Unterbach.Open the Meiringen pageValaisSionClosed to the Air Force in 2017, still open to jets — and the one runway in Switzerland where you can fly an L-39 yourself.Open the Sion page

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United States Air Force bases

The Air Force runs more airfields than any other service on earth. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 204 bases, active and closed, is on the United States Air Force page.

NevadaNellis Air Force BaseRed Flag, the Aggressors, the Weapons School and the Thunderbirds — the base where the Air Force learns to fight, and loses on purpose.Open the Nellis Air Force Base pageCaliforniaEdwards Air Force BaseRogers Dry Lake and the flight test centre. Almost every American military aircraft since 1942 has been proved here, and the sound barrier was broken overhead.Open the Edwards Air Force Base pageArizonaDavis-Monthan Air Force BaseThe Boneyard: 2,600 acres of stored aircraft in the Arizona desert — and the base the A-10 flew from for fifty years, until July 2026.Open the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base pageGermanyRamsteinThe largest mobility hub in the Air Force and the headquarters of USAFE-AFAFRICA, commanding a theatre that spans three continents.Open the Ramstein pageJapanKadenaThe largest American air base in the Pacific — and, since the Eagles left in 2025, one with no fighters of its own until the F-15EX arrives.Open the Kadena pageUnited KingdomRoyal Air Force LakenheathThe Liberty Wing in Suffolk: the largest USAF fighter wing in Europe and the first F-35A base on the continent. The Libya raid flew from here.Open the Royal Air Force Lakenheath pageItalyAvianoAn aerodrome since 1911, at the foot of the Carnic Alps. Deny Flight, Deliberate Force and Allied Force were all flown from this ramp.Open the Aviano pageCaliforniaBeale Air Force BaseHome of the Blackbird, then the Dragon Lady. Seventy years on, the U-2 still climbs out of the Sacramento Valley to 70,000 feet.Open the Beale Air Force Base pageNew MexicoHolloman Air Force BaseThe world’s longest rocket sled track, sixteen years of F-117A Nighthawks, and the Air Force’s biggest F-16 and MQ-9 schoolhouse on the edge of White Sands.Open the Holloman Air Force Base pageMissouriWhiteman Air Force BaseThe only operational B-2 base on earth: nineteen Spirits and the 509th Bomb Wing, whose lineage runs back to Tinian and the atomic missions of 1945.Open the Whiteman Air Force Base pageLouisianaBarksdale Air Force BaseHeadquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command and home of the Mighty Eighth — 47 B-52H bombers on a 22,000-acre installation in north-west Louisiana.Open the Barksdale Air Force Base pageFloridaEglin Air Force Base464,000 acres across three Florida counties, where American air-delivered weapons are proved — and where the Doolittle Raiders learned to fly off a carrier.Open the Eglin Air Force Base pageNorth DakotaMinot Air Force BaseThe only base in the Air Force with two legs of the nuclear triad — B-52H bombers and 150 Minuteman III silos — and the base the 2007 Bent Spear incident is named for.Open the Minot Air Force Base pageNebraskaOffutt Air Force BaseHeadquarters of United States Strategic Command, home of the 55th Wing’s Rivet Joints, and the base where Looking Glass stayed airborne for twenty-nine years.Open the Offutt Air Force Base pageWyomingF. E. Warren Air Force BaseThe oldest continuously active base in the Air Force, founded in 1867 — and it has no runway at all, only two helicopter pads.Open the F. E. Warren Air Force Base pageMontanaMalmstrom Air Force BaseWhere the first Minuteman went on alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and where a whole flight of missiles dropped off alert in 1967.Open the Malmstrom Air Force Base pageGuamAndersen Air Force BaseGuam’s bomber island. Arc Light and Linebacker II launched from here, and the 36th Wing still owns no aircraft of its own — everything on the ramp is a visitor.Open the Andersen Air Force Base pageSouth KoreaKunsanThe Wolf Pack — a single-seat F-16 base on the Yellow Sea where every tour is one year and unaccompanied, so the whole wing turns over annually.Open the Kunsan pageJapanMisawaThe Air Force’s Wild Weasel base in northern Japan, now trading 36 F-16s for 48 F-35As — the first USAF F-35s permanently based in Japan.Open the Misawa pageAlaskaEielson Air Force BaseAlaska’s F-35 base at the end of one of North America’s longest runways, and home of RED FLAG-Alaska since Mount Pinatubo pushed it north from Clark.Open the Eielson Air Force Base page

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United States Naval Aviation bases

United States Naval Aviation flies its strike fighters from Oceana and Lemoore, its Pacific Fleet helicopters from North Island and trains its aviators at Pensacola, where they arrived in 1914; Miramar, the old home of Top Gun, is now a Marine Corps air station. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 16 bases, active and closed, is on the United States Naval Aviation page.

FloridaNaval Air Station Pensacola (Forrest Sherman Field)The Navy’s first air station, on the site of an 1826 navy yard, where the aviators arrived on 20 January 1914 and about 1,000 had been trained by the 1918 armistice; today the home of Training Air Wing Six, the Blue Angels since the winter of 1954–55 and the National Naval Aviation Museum, and the scene of the shooting of 6 December 2019 that killed three American sailors.Open the Naval Air Station Pensacola (Forrest Sherman Field) pageCaliforniaNaval Air Station North Island (Halsey Field)Where Glenn Curtiss taught the Navy’s first aviator to fly in 1911, named the Birthplace of Naval Aviation in 1963 and shared with the Army’s Rockwell Field until 1939; today the headquarters of Commander, Naval Air Forces and home of most Pacific Fleet MH-60 squadrons and the CMV-22B Ospreys, with carriers berthed at its piers.Open the Naval Air Station North Island (Halsey Field) pageVirginiaNaval Air Station Oceana (Apollo Soucek Field)The Navy’s East Coast master jet base, opened in November 1941 and the last home of the F-14 Tomcat, retired here on 22 September 2006; today Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic, VFA-106 and the headquarters of four carrier air wings fly from it, with about 250 aircraft by Wikipedia’s count, in a Virginia Beach that has grown up to the fence.Open the Naval Air Station Oceana (Apollo Soucek Field) pageNevadaNaval Air Station Fallon (Van Voorhis Field)Built in the Nevada high desert in 1942 and a full naval air station since 1972, it became the centre of Navy air combat training when Top Gun moved here from Miramar in 1996; the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center trains carrier air wings over the Fallon Range Training Complex, whose expansion Congress approved in December 2022.Open the Naval Air Station Fallon (Van Voorhis Field) page

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United States Marine Corps Aviation bases

Marine Corps Aviation flies from air stations on both coasts and in Japan: Cherry Point and Miramar hold the 2nd and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wings, Yuma the weapons school and four F-35B squadrons, and Futenma the Ospreys of the 1st on Okinawa; El Toro and Tustin closed in 1999. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the United States Marine Corps Aviation page.

North CarolinaMarine Corps Air Station Cherry PointCommissioned on 20 May 1942 as Cunningham Field, after the Corps’ first aviator, and home of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and of the last EA-6B Prowlers until 2019; on 3 June 2026 it marked the end of 55 years of Marine Harriers, and it now flies F-35Bs, the East Coast’s first active-duty F-35Cs, KC-130Js and MQ-9A crew training.Open the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point pageArizonaMarine Corps Air Station YumaAn Army gunnery school in the Second World War and Vincent Air Force Base before the Navy took it over on 1 January 1959, it shares its 13,300 ft runway with the city airport; the F-35B entered Marine service here in November 2012, and today four F-35B squadrons, the MAWTS-1 weapons school, VMX-1 and the F-5N adversaries of VMFT-401 fly from it.Open the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma pageOkinawa Prefecture (Ginowan)Marine Corps Air Station FutenmaBuilt by US Army engineers in 1945 on requisitioned land in what is now the middle of Ginowan, Okinawa, and a Marine base since 1960, it flies the MV-22B Ospreys of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing; Japan and the United States agreed in 1996 to return it once a replacement was ready, and thirty years on the Henoko site is still being built, a project the Japanese government supports and Okinawa Prefecture opposes.Open the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma page

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United States Army Aviation Branch bases

The Army Aviation Branch trains its pilots at Fort Rucker and flies from army airfields beside its divisions, from Fort Campbell, home of the 101st and the Night Stalkers, to Hawaii, South Korea and Germany; Fort Wolters, the primary helicopter school, closed in 1973. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the United States Army Aviation Branch page.

AlabamaFort Rucker (Cairns Army)Opened as an infantry camp in 1942 and saved by the helicopter when the Army Aviation School moved in from Fort Sill in 1954, it has trained nearly every Army pilot since 1973 and is the headquarters of the Aviation Branch; Cairns Army Airfield, which Wikipedia calls the Army’s busiest, and the Army Aviation Museum are on a post that was Fort Novosel from 2023 to 2025.Open the Fort Rucker (Cairns Army) pageKentucky and TennesseeCampbell Army (Fort Campbell)On the Kentucky–Tennessee border, a Second World War armour camp and Campbell Air Force Base from 1947 to 1959, it has been the home of the 101st Airborne Division since 1956, airmobile since 1974; the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade flies Black Hawks, Chinooks and Apaches from it, and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment keeps its headquarters and two battalions here.Open the Campbell Army (Fort Campbell) page

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United States Coast Guard Aviation bases

Coast Guard aviation flies from 24 air stations, from Elizabeth City, the hub of its depot and schools, to Kodiak in Alaska and Barbers Point in Hawaii; Ten Pound Island, where flying took root in 1925, and Brooklyn, the wartime helicopter school, have closed. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the United States Coast Guard Aviation page.

North CarolinaCoast Guard Air Station Elizabeth CityCommissioned on 15 August 1940 with four officers, 52 enlisted men and ten aircraft and flown under Navy control in the Second World War, it took over the work of the Bermuda and Argentia stations in 1966; today it flies Jayhawks and, by Wikipedia’s count, Hercules as far as Greenland and the Azores, owns the runways it shares with the civil airport and hosts the Coast Guard’s aviation depot and maintenance school.Open the Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City pageAlaskaCoast Guard Air Station KodiakBuilt by the Navy for the war in the Aleutians and commissioned in June 1941, it took its first Coast Guard air detachment of one PBY in April 1947 and passed wholly to the Coast Guard in 1972; its Hercules, Jayhawks and Dolphins cover about four million square miles of Alaskan sea, and its crews rescued 18 sailors from the Selendang Ayu in 2004 and lost a helicopter doing it.Open the Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak page

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French Air and Space Force bases

France runs fifteen flying air bases at home, six overseas and one in the Gulf. These are the pages published so far; the full map of every base, active and closed, is on the French Air and Space Force page.

Haute-MarneBase aérienne 113 Saint-Dizier-RobinsonThe first Rafale base and the home of the airborne nuclear deterrent — and the runway the first shots over Libya were flown from in March 2011.Open the Base aérienne 113 Saint-Dizier-Robinson pageLandesBase aérienne 118 Mont-de-MarsanWhere the French air force decides how to fight: the CEAM trials centre, three Rafale squadrons and the only régiment in the service, the Normandie-Niemen.Open the Base aérienne 118 Mont-de-Marsan pageBouches-du-RhôneBase aérienne 125 Istres-Le TubéThe longest runway in France, Europe’s biggest tanker fleet and the flight test centre — the base most French deployments actually leave from.Open the Base aérienne 125 Istres-Le Tubé pageCherBase aérienne 702 AvordFour E-3F Sentries in the middle of France: the only airborne early warning aircraft owned outright by a continental Western European air force.Open the Base aérienne 702 Avord pageBouches-du-RhôneBase aérienne 701 Salon-de-ProvenceThe air academy, the Patrouille de France since 1964, and the motto the whole service took from Guynemer: Faire face.Open the Base aérienne 701 Salon-de-Provence page

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French Naval Aviation bases

France runs four naval air bases and seven permanent detachments, and one ship that turns them into an expeditionary air force. These are the pages published so far; the full map of every base, active and closed, is on the French Naval Aviation page.

FinistèreBAN LandivisiauThe granite aircraft carrier: every French carrier fighter squadron lives here, and the runway is painted as a deck so they can practise landing on a ship that is 1,200 km away.Open the BAN Landivisiau page

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Italian Air Force bases

Italy flies from about twenty airfields and keeps units on a dozen more. These are the pages published so far; the full map of every base, active and closed, is on the Italian Air Force page.

PugliaAmendolaThe first F-35 base in Europe, the largest military airfield in Italy, and the home of Italian armed drones.Open the Amendola pageLombardiaGhediThe Tornado base turning into an F-35 base — and the Italian end of NATO nuclear sharing.Open the Ghedi pagePiemonteCameriThe only F-35 assembly line outside the United States, on a field that has been flying since 1910.Open the Cameri pageFriuli-Venezia GiuliaRivoltoHome of the Frecce Tricolori since 1961, and of the air force’s ground-based missile wing.Open the Rivolto pageToscanaGrossetoThe 4th Wing, the Baracca squadron and round-the-clock Eurofighter alert over central Italy.Open the Grosseto pageSardegnaDecimomannuDecades as NATO’s Mediterranean air combat training base, now the International Flight Training School.Open the Decimomannu page

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German Air Force bases

Germany flies from ten Fliegerhorste and three shared civil airports, and has given up more than forty more since 1990. These are the pages published so far; the full map of every base, active and closed, is on the German Air Force page.

Rheinland-PfalzBüchelThe Tornado wing that carries Germany’s share of NATO nuclear sharing, now becoming the F-35A base.Open the Büchel pageNiedersachsenWittmundhafenNorthern quick reaction alert, and the wing that carries Manfred von Richthofen’s name.Open the Wittmundhafen pageBayernNeuburgSouthern quick reaction alert over Bavaria, and the base that built the Me 262.Open the Neuburg pageNordrhein-WestfalenNörvenichThe Boelcke wing, the first German unit on the F-84F and the F-104, and Germany’s host field for foreign detachments.Open the Nörvenich pageMecklenburg-VorpommernLaage / Rostock-Laage AirportThe former Nationale Volksarmee base where Luftwaffe MiG-29s flew until 2004, now the Eurofighter training wing.Open the Laage / Rostock-Laage Airport pageNiedersachsenWunstorfThe A400M main operating base, and a Berlin Airlift field that has never stopped flying transports.Open the Wunstorf pageNordrhein-WestfalenNATO GeilenkirchenNot a Luftwaffe base at all: NATO’s own AWACS wing, multinational, on the Luxembourg register.Open the NATO Geilenkirchen pageNiedersachsenNordholz NavalGerman naval aviation since 1912 — Zeppelins, Orions, and now the P-8A Poseidon.Open the Nordholz Naval page

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German Naval Aviation bases

German naval aviation flies from one airfield, Nordholz, and has given up four more. These are the pages published so far; the full map of every station, active and closed, is on the German Naval Aviation page.

NiedersachsenNordholz NavalThe whole of German naval aviation on one airfield, and a Zeppelin base since 1912.Open the Nordholz Naval page

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Royal Canadian Air Force bases

Canada flies from eleven bases and has given up well over a hundred stations since 1945, including four fighter wings in Europe. These are the pages published so far; the full map of every base, active and closed, is on the Royal Canadian Air Force page.

Alberta4 Wing Cold LakeThe main fighter base, the country’s biggest air weapons range, and where the F-35 is meant to land.Open the 4 Wing Cold Lake pageQuébec3 Wing BagotvilleThe francophone fighter base, NORAD alert for eastern Canada, and 425 "Alouette".Open the 3 Wing Bagotville pageOntario8 Wing TrentonThe airlift hub, the parachute school, and the end of the Highway of Heroes.Open the 8 Wing Trenton pageNova Scotia14 Wing GreenwoodAtlantic maritime patrol, the Aurora, and the anti-submarine watch on the North Atlantic.Open the 14 Wing Greenwood pageBritish Columbia19 Wing ComoxPacific search and rescue over mountains and open ocean, and the Kingfisher’s first home.Open the 19 Wing Comox pageNewfoundland and Labrador5 Wing Goose BayThe airfield the Americans cut out of Labrador in 1941, and what it does now.Open the 5 Wing Goose Bay pageNova Scotia12 Wing ShearwaterA hundred years of naval aviation, the Sea King’s fifty years and the Cyclone that replaced it.Open the 12 Wing Shearwater pageSaskatchewan15 Wing Moose JawWhere every Canadian military pilot learns to fly, and where the Snowbirds live.Open the 15 Wing Moose Jaw pageManitoba17 Wing WinnipegThe operational brain of the RCAF, sharing a runway with an international airport.Open the 17 Wing Winnipeg pageOntarioGarrison PetawawaAn army garrison flying air force Chinooks — the thing readers most often get wrong.Open the Garrison Petawawa page

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Canadian Naval and Army Aviation bases

Canadian naval and army aviation flew from one naval air station, three aircraft carriers and a scatter of army camps and joint training fields, and all of it closed on 1 February 1968. These are the pages published so far; the full map is on the Canadian Naval and Army Aviation page.

Nova ScotiaHMCS Shearwater (Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater)The only naval air station Canada ever had, and the place all of this happened.Open the HMCS Shearwater (Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater) page

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Royal Air Force bases

Since the end of the Cold War the RAF has concentrated its flying on a small number of large main operating bases and closed or handed over dozens of others. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 47 stations, active and closed, is on the Royal Air Force page.

Moray, ScotlandRoyal Air Force LossiemouthQuick Reaction Alert for the northern sky, the Tirpitz raids, twenty-six years as HMS Fulmar — and a decade with no maritime patrol aircraft before the Poseidon came.Open the Royal Air Force Lossiemouth pageLincolnshire, EnglandRoyal Air Force ConingsbySouthern Quick Reaction Alert and the first Typhoon station. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight has flown its Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster from here since 1976.Open the Royal Air Force Coningsby pageNorfolk, EnglandRoyal Air Force MarhamWhere RAF air-to-air refuelling grew up, thirty-seven years of Tornado, and now the F-35B Lightning Force — run jointly with the Royal Navy and flown from aircraft carriers.Open the Royal Air Force Marham pageOxfordshire, EnglandRoyal Air Force Brize NortonThe RAF’s largest station: every Voyager, Atlas and C-17 in one place, a D-Day glider airfield, and the gate through which the fallen come home.Open the Royal Air Force Brize Norton pageLincolnshire, EnglandRoyal Air Force WaddingtonThe first Lancaster squadron went to war from here and Vulcan XM607 flew Black Buck. Today it is the centre of British surveillance flying, and home of the Red Arrows.Open the Royal Air Force Waddington pageWestern Sovereign Base Area, CyprusRoyal Air Force AkrotiriAn RAF airfield on British sovereign soil in Cyprus. Suez, the 1974 invasion, every Middle East operation since — and a drone strike in March 2026.Open the Royal Air Force Akrotiri page

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Fleet Air Arm bases

The Fleet Air Arm flies from two principal air stations, Yeovilton and Culdrose, and from RAF Marham; Lee-on-Solent, its main shore base for decades, ended service flying in 1993. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the Fleet Air Arm page.

Somerset, EnglandRoyal Naval Air Station YeoviltonA wartime fighter school of 1940 and one of the Navy’s two principal air stations, where every Sea Harrier squadron worked up between 1979 and 2006; today it flies the Wildcats, the Commando Helicopter Force and, since 2015, the Army’s Wildcat regiment, with the Fleet Air Arm Museum on the airfield edge.Open the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton pageCornwall, EnglandRoyal Naval Air Station CuldroseCommissioned in 1947 as a fighting school meant to last about ten years, it became the Navy’s anti-submarine helicopter base and Cornwall’s rescue station until 2016; every Royal Navy Merlin HM2, including the Crowsnest early-warning version, flies from here.Open the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose page

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Army Air Corps (United Kingdom) bases

The Army Air Corps keeps its headquarters and schools at Middle Wallop and its attack helicopters at Wattisham, and left its last airfield in Germany, Gütersloh, in 2013. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 13 bases, active and closed, is on the Army Air Corps page.

Hampshire, EnglandMiddle Wallop Flying StationA Battle of Britain sector station of 1940 and a night-fighter base through the Blitz, and the home of British Army flying since 1 October 1958: the corps headquarters, the Army Aviation Centre, the Apache training fleet and the Army Flying Museum.Open the Middle Wallop Flying Station pageSuffolk, EnglandWattisham Flying StationAn RAF station from 1939 to 1992, whose Blenheims flew the RAF’s first attack of the Second World War and whose Lightnings and Phantoms stood Cold War alert, and since 1993 the Army’s attack helicopter base, where 3 and 4 Regiments fly the AH-64E Apache.Open the Wattisham Flying Station page

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Polish Air Force bases

Poland concentrated its combat aircraft on a handful of tactical air bases after 1990 and closed dozens of Warsaw Pact airfields. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases, active and closed, is on the Polish Air Force page.

Łódzkie (Łódź)32nd Tactical ŁaskPoland’s first F-35 base since May 2026, host of America’s first permanent air detachment in Poland since 2012, and thirty-five years of MiG-21s before that.Open the 32nd Tactical Łask pageWielkopolskie (Greater Poland)31st Tactical Poznań-KrzesinyWhere Poland’s F-16 era began in 2006: the Tiger squadron, the first NATO Tiger Meet in Poland, Norwegian F-35s on the eastern flank — and a long fight over jet noise.Open the 31st Tactical Poznań-Krzesiny pageLubelskie (Lublin)41st Air Training Base DęblinThe School of Eaglets: almost every Polish military pilot since 1927 learned to fly here, from the Battle of Britain generation to today’s F-35 pilots on the M-346 Bielik.Open the 41st Air Training Base Dęblin pageWielkopolskie (Greater Poland)33rd Air Transport Base PowidzPoland’s Hercules base, home of its special operations aviation, and now the site of the US Army’s newest prepositioned-stock depot in Europe.Open the 33rd Air Transport Base Powidz pagePomorskie (Pomerania)22nd Tactical MalborkThe last MiG-29 base in Poland, named after Stanisław Skalski — and NATO’s landing ground a few minutes’ flight from Kaliningrad.Open the 22nd Tactical Malbork pageMazowieckie (Masovia)1st Air Transport Base WarsawPoland’s government airline for sixty-six years, the regiment lost at Smoleńsk in 2010, and the new VIP fleet built after it.Open the 1st Air Transport Base Warsaw page

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Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force bases

The Netherlands flies its F-35s from two fighter bases, Leeuwarden and Volkel, and has closed Soesterberg, Twenthe and other airfields since the Cold War. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force page.

Friesland (Fryslân)LeeuwardenThe first Dutch jet fighter base in 1949, the first with the F-16 in 1979 and the first home of the Dutch F-35 — and now the base of the MQ-9A Reapers and the Frisian Flag exercise.Open the Leeuwarden pageNorth Brabant (Noord-Brabant)VolkelWhere the Dutch F-16 story ended in September 2024, home of the tiger squadron’s F-35s, and the Dutch base named in NATO nuclear-sharing reporting.Open the Volkel pageUtrechtSoesterbergThe birthplace of Dutch military aviation in 1913, forty years of American fighters at Camp New Amsterdam, and now the Nationaal Militair Museum.Open the Soesterberg pageNorth Brabant (Noord-Brabant)Gilze-RijenWhere a Dutch military aviator landed on the heath in 1913, and since 2008 the headquarters of every Dutch military helicopter — Apache, Chinook and Cougar.Open the Gilze-Rijen pageNorth Brabant (Noord-Brabant)EindhovenThe transport hub: Hercules, the government Gulfstream, NATO’s shared A330 tanker fleet and the European Air Transport Command, on a runway shared with a busy civil airport.Open the Eindhoven page

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Belgian Air Force bases

Belgium flies from five air bases; Bierset has closed and Chièvres was handed to SHAPE in 1967. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the Belgian Air Force page.

LimburgKleine-BrogelBelgium’s F-16 strike wing and home of the Tigers of 31 Squadron, the base named in the 2019 NATO nuclear leak, and the next to receive the F-35A.Open the Kleine-Brogel pageNamurFlorennesBelgium’s first F-35 base since October 2025 and home of the MQ-9B — and from 1984 to 1989 the site of an American nuclear cruise-missile wing.Open the Florennes pageWalloon BrabantBeauvechainWhere Belgium’s last Hurricanes were strafed on the grass in May 1940, fifty years of the 1st Fighter Wing, and now where every Belgian military pilot starts.Open the Beauvechain pageFlemish BrabantMelsbroekThe military side of Brussels Airport: almost fifty years of Hercules, the last flights out of Kabul, and the binational Belgian-Luxembourg A400M fleet.Open the Melsbroek page

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Royal Norwegian Air Force bases

Norway concentrated its fighters at Ørland after the 2012 decision, with a forward alert base at Evenes, and Bodø and Andøya lost their squadrons. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Norwegian Air Force page.

TrøndelagØrland Air StationHome of the Norwegian F-35 since 2017, sixty-five years of 338 Squadron before that, and NATO’s AWACS landing ground in the north.Open the Ørland Air Station pageNordlandEvenes Air StationWhere two F-35As have stood alert for the north since January 2022, and home of the P-8 Poseidons that watch the Norwegian and Barents Seas.Open the Evenes Air Station pageTromsBardufoss Air StationNorway’s northernmost military airfield before the war, with aircraft hangars cut into the mountain, the flying school where every pilot starts and a helicopter squadron still waiting for its Seahawks.Open the Bardufoss Air Station pageNordlandAndøya Air StationSix decades of submarine hunting by 333 Squadron, a closure voted in 2016 and never quite carried out, and a runway next door to a rocket range.Open the Andøya Air Station pageNordlandBodø Air Force BaseThe U-2’s intended landing ground in 1960 and for decades Norway’s largest air station, it lost its fighters in 2022 and in October 2025 became home to NATO’s new air operations centre for the north.Open the Bodø Air Force Base page

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Swedish Air Force bases

Sweden closed most of its Cold War wings between 1969 and 2005 and now keeps three fighter wings, at Såtenäs, Ronneby and Luleå. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 17 bases, active and closed, is on the Swedish Air Force page.

Västra Götaland CountySäve (F 9)Sweden’s first rock-hangar wing: F 9 guarded Gothenburg and the west coast from 1940 to 1969, and its nuclear-age hangar, the New Mountain of 1955, some 30 metres down, is now the Aeroseum museum.Open the Säve (F 9) pageVästra Götaland CountySåtenäs (F 7)Europe’s first Hercules base in 1965, the first Viggen wing in 1971, the school for every Swedish Gripen pilot — and, since October 2025, the first wing with the Gripen E.Open the Såtenäs (F 7) pageNorrbotten CountyLuleå-Kallax (F 21)Sweden’s northernmost air wing: half a century of camera-nosed reconnaissance Drakens and Viggens, Gripens today, and a 3,350-metre runway shared with Luleå Airport beside one of the world’s largest air exercise areas.Open the Luleå-Kallax (F 21) pageÖstergötland CountyLinköping-MalmenWhere Swedish military flying began in 1912: headquarters of the only helicopter wing, school for every Swedish military pilot on the Sk 40, and home of the Air Force Museum and the DC-3 raised from the Baltic.Open the Linköping-Malmen pageBlekinge CountyRonneby (F 17)From torpedo bombers in 1944 to two combat-ready Gripen squadrons guarding the southern Baltic — and the base whose fire-training foam poisoned Kallinge’s drinking water in Sweden’s worst PFAS case.Open the Ronneby (F 17) page

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Royal Danish Air Force bases

Denmark gathered every combat aircraft at Skrydstrup in 2006 and closed Værløse, Vandel, Tirstrup and Avnø after the Cold War. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Danish Air Force page.

Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark)SkrydstrupDenmark’s only fighter base: a Wehrmacht airfield of 1943, home of the F-16 for 46 years and, since September 2023, of the F-35 and the two jets on quick reaction alert.Open the Skrydstrup pageCentral Denmark Region (Region Midtjylland)KarupDenmark’s largest air station, laid out by the Luftwaffe in 1940: NATO’s Baltic air command for three decades, the Draken base until 1993–1994, home of every Danish military helicopter and the chosen base for new A330 tankers.Open the Karup pageNorth Denmark Region (Region Nordjylland)AalborgA German parachute target on 9 April 1940, the Starfighter base of the north for two decades, and today the Hercules and Challenger gateway to Greenland — with Denmark’s long-range drones to follow from 2028.Open the Aalborg pageCapital Region of Denmark (Region Hovedstaden)VærløseWhere the army air corps lost 11 aircraft destroyed and 14 badly damaged on the morning of 9 April 1940; the air force’s first headquarters, closed in 2004 and now a nature area with its F-16 shelters still standing.Open the Værløse page

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Finnish Air Force bases

Finland flies from four main operating bases, all shared with civil airports, and has given up Kauhava, Pori and Halli. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Finnish Air Force page.

Lapland (Lappi)Rovaniemi (Lapland Air Wing)A Luftwaffe rear base in the Continuation War, Draken country from 1973 and, on the Arctic Circle, the first Finnish home of the F-35A: the first two landed on 18 September 2026.Open the Rovaniemi (Lapland Air Wing) pageNorth Savo (Pohjois-Savo)Rissala (Karelia Air Wing)Heir to Finland’s first fighter unit of 1918: thirty-five years of MiG-21s until 1998, Hornets on round-the-clock readiness since, and the second F-35 base from 2028.Open the Rissala (Karelia Air Wing) pageCentral Finland (Keski-Suomi)Tikkakoski (Air Force Academy)Headquarters of the Finnish Air Force since the early 1970s, school for every Finnish military pilot since 2015, home of the Midnight Hawks — and where a Finn first broke the sound barrier in 1958.Open the Tikkakoski (Air Force Academy) pageSouth Ostrobothnia (Etelä-Pohjanmaa)Kauhava (former Air Force Academy)For 85 years the place Finnish military pilots learned to fly, a wartime school that trained 900 pilots in 1939–1944; since flying ended in 2014 its 2,700-metre runway has served a flying club and a business park.Open the Kauhava (former Air Force Academy) page

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Spanish Air and Space Force bases

Spain’s fighters fly from four mainland wings and from Gando in the Canary Islands, and three of those bases were shared with the United States under the Pact of Madrid. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 16 bases, active and closed, is on the Spanish Air and Space Force page.

Community of MadridTorrejónMadrid’s fighter base: a joint Spanish and American installation from 1957 until the USAF handed its part back in 1992, home of Ala 12, which has flown the Sabre, the Starfighter, the Phantom and the Hornet, and of NATO’s air operations centre for southern Europe.Open the Torrejón pageAndalusiaMorónSpain’s first Eurofighter wing, on what the US Air Force calls the largest runway in USAFE: a B-47 alert base from 1958, a B-52 base in the 1991 Gulf War and, from 2013 until probably 2021, home of a US Marine crisis-response force for Africa.Open the Morón pageAragonZaragozaSpain’s first Hornet base since 1986, an American base for 34 years and a Space Shuttle abort site — and home of Ala 31, which traded four decades of Hercules for the A400M.Open the Zaragoza pageCastilla-La ManchaAlbacete-Los LlanosThe last Spanish Mirage F1 wing, a Eurofighter base since 2012 and, since 2009, home of NATO’s Tactical Leadership Programme — where a Greek F-16 crashed into the flight line in January 2015, killing 11.Open the Albacete-Los Llanos pageCanary IslandsGandoSpain’s fighter base in the Atlantic, where flying began in 1924 and Franco’s Dragon Rapide took off in July 1936: Hornets on 24/7 alert from 1999 until June 2026, when older Tranche 3 Eurofighters took over.Open the Gando page

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Spanish Naval Air Arm bases

Every manned squadron of the Spanish Naval Air Arm flies from Rota, and the stations of the pre-war Aeronáutica Naval at San Javier, Barcelona, Mahón and Mar Chica closed in 1939. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the Spanish Naval Air Arm page.

Andalusia (Province of Cádiz)Rota Naval BaseA Spanish naval base with an American naval station inside it, a fruit of the 1953 agreements with the United States and the home of Spanish naval flying since 1957: the first Harriers arrived aboard the Dédalo in December 1976, and every manned squadron of the Flotilla de Aeronaves flies from its 3,690-metre runway.Open the Rota Naval Base page

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Spanish Army Airmobile Force bases

FAMET is run from Colmenar Viejo, keeps its attack helicopters at Almagro and flies from four more bases in Spain and a detachment in Melilla; its first base abroad, El Aaiún in the Spanish Sahara, was given up in 1975. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Spanish Army Airmobile Force page.

Community of MadridColmenar Viejo Army Helicopter BaseWhere Spanish army aviation began, with two UH-1B Hueys on 29 July 1966, and where it is still run from: the FAMET headquarters, the Chinook battalion with 17 CH-47Fs and the Army aviation academy, on a base named after Colonel Ángel Maté Sánchez, killed near it in 1977.Open the Colmenar Viejo Army Helicopter Base pageCastile-La Mancha (Ciudad Real)Almagro Army Helicopter BaseThe only base of the Army’s only attack helicopter battalion, inaugurated on 26 April 1983: Bo 105s for almost four decades, Tigres since 2007, and since May 2025 Tigres on NATO’s eastern flank in Slovakia.Open the Almagro Army Helicopter Base page

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Portuguese Air Force bases

Portugal keeps every combat jet at Monte Real and flies transport, rescue and maritime patrol from Montijo, Beja and airfields in the Azores and Madeira. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 13 bases, active and closed, is on the Portuguese Air Force page.

Leiria DistrictMonte RealPortugal’s only fighter base, inaugurated on 4 October 1959 for the F-86F Sabre: Sabres to Guinea in the colonial war, A-7P Corsairs for 18 years, and since 1994 the F-16s and the permanent air-defence alert.Open the Monte Real pageBeja DistrictBejaCreated in 1964 under agreements with West Germany, whose Luftwaffe trained here for almost three decades, Portugal’s biggest air base is now its centre of new equipment: KC-390s, P-3C Orions and the first NATO-standard A-29N Super Tucanos.Open the Beja pageSetúbal DistrictMontijoThe navy’s station on the Tagus that became Air Base No. 6 in 1953: home of the Hercules since 1977 and of the Merlins that say they have saved more than 5,000 lives, and due to take Lisbon’s military terminal by the end of 2028.Open the Montijo pageLisbon DistrictSintraWhere Portugal has taught military pilots since 1920: home of the Air Force Academy, of the Museu do Ar and of the Chipmunks still flown for pilot selection 75 years after the type entered Portuguese service.Open the Sintra pageAutonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores)LajesAir Base No. 4 on Terceira, a third of the way from Europe to North America: a British base from 1943, the refuelling stop of the 1973 Nickel Grass airlift to Israel, and today the Merlin rescue base for the Azores, shared with the US 65th Air Base Group.Open the Lajes page

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Austrian Air Force bases

Austria keeps all 15 Eurofighters at Zeltweg and its helicopters at Langenlebarn and Aigen im Ennstal, and plans its next jets, transports and Black Hawks for Hörsching. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the Austrian Air Force page.

Styria (Steiermark)ZeltwegAustria’s only fighter base: opened by the First Republic weeks before the Anschluss, a Draken base from 1988, home of all 15 Eurofighters since 12 July 2007 and of the AIRPOWER air show, whose 2024 edition drew 250,000 people.Open the Zeltweg pageUpper Austria (Oberösterreich)Linz-HörschingA Luftwaffe bomber school of 1940 that shares its runway with Linz Airport: home of the Saab 105 for fifty years, of the Hercules since 2003, and from 2028 of the M-346FA, the C-390 and the UH-60M.Open the Linz-Hörsching pageLower Austria (Niederösterreich)LangenlebarnWhere the Second Republic’s air force made its first flight, in a Soviet-donated Yak-18 on 9 December 1955: now the Black Hawk base, renamed Fliegerhorst Leopold Figl – Flugplatz General Pabisch on 15 May 2024 after dropping the name of the ace Godwin von Brumowski.Open the Langenlebarn pageStyria (Steiermark)Aigen im EnnstalThe First Republic’s bomber base in the Enns valley: home for almost half a century of the Alouette III mountain rescue helicopter, a German airfield in the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, and now a base of the new AW169.Open the Aigen im Ennstal pageLower Austria (Niederösterreich)Wiener Neustadt WestAustria’s first airfield, declared on 17 November 1909, where the Habsburg army trained its first pilots and Oeffag built Albatros fighters; today a grass military aerodrome shared with flying clubs and the Jagdkommando special forces.Open the Wiener Neustadt West page

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Czech Air Force bases

The Czech Republic keeps every fighter at Čáslav, its attack helicopters at Náměšť nad Oslavou and its transports at Prague-Kbely, and has closed Cold War jet bases such as Žatec and Plzeň-Líně. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the Czech Air Force page.

Central Bohemian Region (Středočeský kraj)ČáslavHome of the 28th Fighter-Bomber Regiment’s Su-7s and MiG-23BNs for 36 years, of leased Gripens on NATO alert since 1 July 2005 and, from 2031, of 24 F-35As; its runway is being rebuilt from 2026 to 2028.Open the Čáslav pageVysočina Region (Kraj Vysočina)Náměšť nad OslavouBuilt for jets in 1956–1960 and named after the RAF’s No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron: a Sukhoi strike base for decades and, since 2013, the home of the army’s attack and transport helicopters, now US-built Vipers and Venoms.Open the Náměšť nad Oslavou pagePrague (Hlavní město Praha)Prague-KbelyWhere Czechoslovak military flying began in 1918, Prague’s only airport until 1937, and now the base of the government A319CJs, the C-295s and the first C-390, beside an aviation museum with about 275 aircraft in its collection.Open the Prague-Kbely pagePardubice Region (Pardubický kraj)PardubiceWhere Jan Kašpar made the first flight in the Czech lands in 1910, a MiG-21 base in the Cold War, the school of Czech military pilots since 2004 and, until autumn 2028, the temporary home of the Gripens and the NATO alert.Open the Pardubice page

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Hungarian Air Force bases

Hungary flies from three military airfields — Kecskemét for fighters and transports, Szolnok for helicopters and Pápa for NATO’s C-17s — and has closed Taszár and the Soviet-era bases since 1990. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the Hungarian Air Force page.

Bács-Kiskun County (Bács-Kiskun vármegye)KecskemétHungary’s only fighter base, opened in 1937: MiG-21s from 1962, the 28 MiG-29s Russia handed over against its debt in 1993, and since 2006 every Hungarian Gripen — 18 by June 2026 — alongside the KC-390 tanker-transports.Open the Kecskemét pageVeszprém County (Veszprém vármegye)PápaA military airfield since 1936 and a MiG base for 40 years, saved from closure in 2001 by NATO: since 2009 the home of the Heavy Airlift Wing and its three C-17s, owned by 12 nations and flown under Hungarian markings.Open the Pápa pageJász-Nagykun-Szolnok County (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok vármegye)SzolnokFounded in 1940 to train pilots, and now the home of Hungary’s combat, transport and rescue helicopters: 36 new H145Ms and H225Ms delivered in 2019–2025, after the Mi-24 and Mi-17 bowed out here on 17 June 2026.Open the Szolnok pageSomogy County (Somogy vármegye)TaszárThe Kapos MiG-21 base for almost four decades, then from December 1995 NATO’s first base on former Warsaw Pact soil — the US staging post for Bosnia and a US Marine Hornet base in the 1999 Kosovo campaign — until it closed at the end of 2005.Open the Taszár page

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Hellenic Air Force bases

Greece flies its fighters from six combat wings, from Larissa in Thessaly to Souda on Crete, with forward bases on the Aegean islands, and has closed Hellinikon and Maleme. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 16 bases, active and closed, is on the Hellenic Air Force page.

Central Greece (Boeotia)TanagraGreece’s interceptor base since 1956 and home of every French-built Greek fighter, from the Mirage F1CG to the Rafales that landed on 19 January 2022; F-16 Vipers are rebuilt beside the runway, and an F-4E crashed here during Athens Flying Week on 5 September 2026.Open the Tanagra pageWestern Greece (Elis)AndravidaThe Greek Phantom base since the first F-4E landed on 5 April 1974 and home of 338 Squadron, the last to fly it, of the Air Tactics Centre and of Exercise Iniochos — and the reported base for the 20 F-35As on order.Open the Andravida pageThessaly (Larissa)LarissaWhere Greek combat flying began with the Aviators Company of 1912 and the first Greek jet squadron arrived in 1952; the Hellenic Tactical Air Force has had its headquarters here since 1953, and the wing flies F-16 Block 52+ and Pegasus II drones.Open the Larissa pageCrete (Chania)SoudaCrete’s fighter wing, with two F-16 Block 52+ squadrons since 2003, on a runway shared with Chania’s airport and the US Naval Support Activity — and the base from which Operation Niki flew commandos to Cyprus in July 1974.Open the Souda pagePeloponnese (Messenia)KalamataThe Hellenic Air Force’s flying school since 1970, on a runway shared with Kalamata airport: T-6A Texan IIs and, since May 2023, M-346s at an International Flight Training Center run by Israel’s Elbit Systems.Open the Kalamata page

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Hellenic Army Aviation bases

Hellenic Army Aviation flies from Stefanovikeio in Thessaly, with Apache work at Alexandreia and a Black Hawk hub planned at Sedes. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases is on the Hellenic Army Aviation page.

Thessaly (Magnesia)Stefanovikeio ArmyThe main base of Hellenic Army Aviation and home of the 1st Army Aviation Brigade, where more than 100 Apaches, Kiowa Warriors and Hueys were based when Storm Daniel flooded the hangars in September 2023, and one of the Greek bases open to US forces since the 2019 defence agreement.Open the Stefanovikeio Army page

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Hellenic Navy Air Service bases

The Hellenic Navy flies its helicopters from Kotroni near Marathon and its P-3B Orions from Elefsis. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases is on the Hellenic Navy Air Service page.

Attica (East Attica, Marathon)Kotroni NavalA hilltop naval fort north-west of Marathon, home of the navy’s helicopters since 1986 and headquarters of the Hellenic Navy Aviation Command, with two short strips of 307 m and 590 m, from which S-70B Aegean Hawks, AB 212s and, since March 2024, MH-60R Seahawks deploy to Greek frigates.Open the Kotroni Naval page

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Turkish Air Force bases

Turkey flies its fighters from a network of numbered main jet bases across Anatolia, shares Incirlik with the US Air Force, and stood down Akıncı after the coup attempt of 2016. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 15 bases, active and closed, is on the Turkish Air Force page.

Konya Province (Central Anatolia)KonyaThe Turkish Air Force’s training and tactics hub: home of the Anatolian Eagle exercise since 2001, of the four E-7T Peace Eagles, the weapons and tactics squadron and both display teams, and a NATO AWACS forward operating base.Open the Konya pageEskişehir Province (Central Anatolia)EskişehirWhere Turkey’s first F-4Es landed on 30 August 1974 and the last F-4E 2020 Terminators still fly: the flying school of the 1920s, the 401 test squadron and the Combined Air Operations Center that directed loyal forces on the night of the 2016 coup attempt.Open the Eskişehir pageAnkara Province (Central Anatolia)Mürted (formerly Akıncı)Opened in 1960 to defend Ankara and later renamed Akıncı; after a Turkish court found it had been the headquarters of the coup attempt of 15 July 2016, it lost its F-16s and its name. The S-400 arrived here in 2019 and the KAAN first flew here in 2024.Open the Mürted (formerly Akıncı) pageBalıkesir Province (Marmara)BalıkesirTurkey’s first jet base, where eight F-84Gs landed on 29 March 1952: today an F-16 alert squadron and the F-16 conversion school, and the home of the F-16D lost near Chios in 1996 after an encounter with Greek Mirage 2000s.Open the Balıkesir pageAdana Province (Mediterranean)İncirlikA Turkish base under a Turkish general, shared with the US Air Force under a joint-use agreement of 1954: the U-2 base of 1960, the hub for northern Iraq from 1991 to 2003, home of the Turkish KC-135R tankers — and a base whose commander backed the 2016 coup attempt.Open the İncirlik page

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Turkish Naval Aviation bases

Turkish Naval Aviation flies from one main air station, Cengiz Topel near İzmit, from a Naval Air Base Command at Dalaman, from a drone base in northern Cyprus and from the deck of TCG Anadolu. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 stations is on the Turkish Naval Aviation page.

Kocaeli ProvinceCengiz Topel Naval Air StationThe headquarters of Turkish Naval Aviation east of İzmit, named after an air force pilot who died after being shot down over Cyprus in 1964, home of the navy’s S-2 Trackers until 1994 and, since 2011, also Kocaeli’s civil airport.Open the Cengiz Topel Naval Air Station page

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Turkish Army Aviation bases

Turkish Army Aviation flies from four regimental airfields — Güvercinlik, Erhaç, Gaziemir and Samandıra — and trains its pilots at Isparta. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 stations is on the Turkish Army Aviation page.

Ankara ProvinceGüvercinlik ArmyThe Turkish Army’s airfield in Ankara, home of the 1st Army Aviation Regiment and, until 2016, of the Army Aviation School, where on 15 July 2016 attack helicopters were armed for the coup attempt while the Land Forces commander was inspecting the base.Open the Güvercinlik Army page

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Romanian Air Force bases

Romania flies its F-16s from Fetești and Câmpia Turzii, hosts NATO fighters at Mihail Kogălniceanu and closed the Cold War fighter bases at Ianca, Deveselu and Craiova between 2001 and 2004. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the Romanian Air Force page.

Călărași CountyFetești (86th)Laid out as a reserve landing ground in 1939, a MiG base of the 86th Regiment for decades and Romania’s first F-16 base since September 2016; since November 2023 it has housed the European F-16 Training Centre, and on 24 July 2026 one of its F-16s shot down a drone over Buzău County.Open the Fetești (86th) pageCluj CountyCâmpia Turzii (71st)Transylvania’s fighter base, begun in 1952: the MiG-21 LanceR arrived here in 2001 and flew its last Romanian sorties from here in May 2023, the first ex-Norwegian F-16s landed on 19 April 2024, and US and Dutch MQ-9 Reapers fly from the field.Open the Câmpia Turzii (71st) pageConstanța CountyMihail Kogălniceanu (57th)For four decades the home of Romania’s front-line interceptors and its only MiG-29 unit, used by US forces since 1999, a base for allied air policing detachments since 2017 and now the biggest building site in Romanian defence.Open the Mihail Kogălniceanu (57th) page

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Bulgarian Air Force bases

Bulgaria keeps every fighter at Graf Ignatievo and its Su-25s at Bezmer, and closed nine airfields, among them Ravnets, Balchik and Dobroslavtsi, between 1998 and 2003. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases, active and closed, is on the Bulgarian Air Force page.

Plovdiv ProvinceGraf IgnatievoThe “German airfield”, in use since 1940, where Bulgaria’s first jets arrived in 1951 and the 19th Fighter Regiment flew for 43 years; rebuilt from 2022 for the F-16, it now holds the last MiG-29s on alert and the eight F-16 Block 70s delivered in 2025.Open the Graf Ignatievo pageYambol ProvinceBezmerHome of the same regiment since 1955 and of the Su-25 attack jets since 1986, given a NATO-funded 3,000-metre runway in 2016 and a facility for joint use by US forces; in July 2026 Parliament approved up to eight US KC-135 tankers there.Open the Bezmer page

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Slovak Air Force bases

Slovakia keeps its fighters at Sliač, flying them from Malacky-Kuchyňa while Sliač is rebuilt, and has ended military flying at Košice and Piešťany. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the Slovak Air Force page.

Banská Bystrica Region (Banskobystrický kraj)SliačAs Tri Duby the airbridge of the 1944 uprising, a Soviet air base from 1968 to 1990, home of Slovakia’s MiG-29s for three decades and, once its reconstruction is finished, expected in 2027, the base of the F-16.Open the Sliač pageBratislava Region (Bratislavský kraj)Malacky (Kuchyňa)A bombing range older than the air force and the airfield where the first Slovak F-16s landed on 22 July 2024, their home until Sliač reopens; the 46th Wing flies the C-27J and L-410 transports from here.Open the Malacky (Kuchyňa) page

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Croatian Air Force bases

Croatia keeps its Rafales and drones at Zagreb-Pleso and trains its pilots and flies its water bombers from Zadar-Zemunik; the Yugoslav underground base at Željava was demolished in 1991–1992. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Croatian Air Force page.

Zagreb County (Zagrebačka županija), at Velika GoricaZagreb-PlesoCroatia’s only fighter base, on the military side of Zagreb airport: the fighter squadron formed here on 17 January 1992 flew the MiG-21 for almost 33 years, its Rafales have held the alert since 1 January 2026, and six TB2 drones joined in 2025.Open the Zagreb-Pleso pageZadar County (Zadarska županija), at Zemunik DonjiZadar-ZemunikA Yugoslav air academy field for thirty years, taken by Croatian forces in 1993 and now where every Croatian military pilot starts, home of the Canadair water bombers, the Kiowa Warriors and the Krila Oluje display team.Open the Zadar-Zemunik page

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Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence bases

Slovenia flies from two airfields, Cerklje ob Krki and Brnik, and has never based a fighter at either; Maribor stood in for the first C-27J, and the Territorial Defence’s field at Ljubljana-Polje is closed. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases, active and closed, is on the Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence page.

Municipality of Brežice, Lower Sava (Posavje)Cerklje ob KrkiA grass field of the 1930s that lost nine Yugoslav aircraft on the first day of the 1941 invasion, a Jastreb and Orao base until 1991, rebuilt for NATO in 2006–2020 for €105.7 million, and now the brigade’s headquarters and home of Slovenia’s two C-27J Spartans.Open the Cerklje ob Krki page

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Estonian Air Force bases

Estonia has one air base, Ämari, where allied NATO fighters have stood alert since 2014; Pärnu stood in while Ämari was rebuilt in 2024, and the interwar stations at Tallinn-Lasnamäe, Tartu and Rakvere closed in 1940. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 bases, active and closed, is on the Estonian Air Force page.

Harju County (Harjumaa), Lääne-Harju ParishÄmariA Soviet airfield of 1940–1941 that flew Su-24s in the Cold War, Estonia’s only air base since 1997 and, since four Danish F-16s landed on 30 April 2014, a NATO fighter base whose alert jets are always allied; its first IRIS-T SLM unit arrived on 22 June 2026.Open the Ämari page

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Latvian Air Force bases

Latvia keeps every air force unit at Lielvārde, a former Soviet base that has hosted allied NATO fighters since 2024; Spilve, the air force’s home between the wars and until 1994, is a museum field, and Riga Airport hosts Canadian helicopters. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases, active and closed, is on the Latvian Air Force page.

Ogre Municipality (Ogres novads), Rembate parishLielvārdeBuilt in 1969 for a Soviet attack aircraft regiment that left in 1993, Latvia’s only military airfield since 1994 and home of every Latvian Air Force unit; the fighters here are all allied, from the first NATO air policing rotation on 1 March 2024 to the four German Eurofighters sent for the September 2026 elections.Open the Lielvārde page

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Lithuanian Air Force bases

Lithuania flies from one military air base, Šiauliai, where allied NATO fighters have stood alert since 2004, with rescue posts at Kaunas and Nemirsetė; Pajuostis ended military flying in 2007, and the interwar main base at Kaunas-Aleksotas is now a general aviation field and museum. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the Lithuanian Air Force page.

Šiauliai County (Šiaulių apskritis)ŠiauliaiOpened as the Žokniai military aviation base on 1 August 1931, given two long runways for Soviet bombers, and since four Belgian F-16s landed on 29 March 2004 the base of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing, whose alert fighters are always allied; Lithuania’s C-27Js and rescue helicopters fly from it too.Open the Šiauliai page

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Serbian Air Force and Air Defence bases

Serbia flies from three military airfields, Batajnica, Lađevci and Niš; six Yugoslav air bases that now lie in Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo and on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina passed out of its hands as Yugoslavia broke up. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases, active and closed, is on the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence page.

City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Zemun municipalityBatajnicaSerbia’s main air base and the home of its fighters, opened in May 1951: heavily bombed in 1999, named since 2019 after Colonel Milenko Pavlović, the regiment commander killed in his MiG-29 on 4 May 1999, and today the base of the 204th Air Brigade’s MiG-29s, G-4s, transports and helicopters.Open the Batajnica pageRaška District (Raški okrug), near KraljevoLađevci (Morava)Built in 1967 in the West Morava valley near Kraljevo, it took in the Orao squadron from Skopski Petrovec as Yugoslavia broke up in 1992 and is now the 98th Air Brigade’s base for J-22 Oraos, Mi-35 attack helicopters and Chinese armed drones, shared since 2019 with the civil Morava Airport.Open the Lađevci (Morava) page

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North Macedonia Air Brigade bases

North Macedonia keeps its whole air arm at Petrovec, on the military side of Skopje International Airport; Krivolak is an army range, not an airfield, and the Skopje fields of 1912–1944 have closed. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases, active and closed, is on the North Macedonia Air Brigade page.

Skopje Statistical Region (airport in Petrovec Municipality)PetrovecThe only military flying base in North Macedonia, beside Skopje’s airport: a Yugoslav Orao and Jastreb base until 1992, the home of the Mi-24 gunships and Su-25s of the 2001 conflict, and today the base of the Air Force Wing’s Mi-8/17 helicopters and Zlin trainers.Open the Petrovec page

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Albanian Air Force bases

Albania flies its drones from Kuçovë, rebuilt by NATO and reopened in 2024, and its helicopters from Farkë; the cave base at Gjadër has trained Black Hawk crews since 2024, and the old flying school airfield at Vlorë has closed. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 6 bases, active and closed, is on the Albanian Air Force page.

Berat County (Qarku i Beratit)KuçovëWhere Albania’s jet age began with MiG-15s on 15 May 1955; silent from the last flight in October 2005 until NATO rebuilt it for about 50 million euros and reopened it on 4 March 2024 as a tactical air base, now home to the air force’s three Bayraktar TB2 drones.Open the Kuçovë pageLezhë County (Qarku i Lezhës)GjadërCommunist Albania’s cave base near Lezhë, opened in 1974 for Chinese-built F-6 and F-7A fighters, a US drone base over Bosnia in 1994–1995, wrecked in the 1997 unrest and reactivated in July 2024 for Black Hawk crew training, with retired MiGs still stored in its tunnels.Open the Gjadër page

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Montenegrin Air Force bases

Montenegro has a single air base, Golubovci, on the military side of Podgorica Airport; the Šipčanik tunnel shelter beside it became a wine cellar in 2007. These are the pages published so far; the full map of both bases, active and closed, is on the Montenegrin Air Force page.

Golubovci, Zeta, south of PodgoricaGolubovciMontenegro’s only air base, on the military side of Podgorica Airport: a Yugoslav jet training base with a tunnel shelter in the hill beside it, bombed in 1999, and since 2006 home to a small helicopter force of Bell 412s and Bell 505s.Open the Golubovci page

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Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina bases

The brigade flies its helicopters from Mahovljani near Banja Luka and from Sarajevo; Tuzla and Mostar are civil airports, and the Yugoslav underground base at Željava was wrecked in 1991–1992. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina page.

Republika Srpska, municipality of LaktašiMahovljani (Banja Luka)The military side of Banja Luka International Airport, where the Army of Republika Srpska set up its air force in May 1992 and the Yugoslav army left a squadron of J-22 Oraos; today the home of the 1st Helicopter Squadron, whose UH-1H-II Hueys moved here from Rajlovac on 28 April 2025.Open the Mahovljani (Banja Luka) pageFederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Canton, municipality of Ilidža (Butmir)Sarajevo International Airport (Butmir)Taken on the night of 4 to 5 April 1992 by members of the Yugoslav Air Force Academy from Rajlovac, by the airport’s own account, then held open for the UN airlift of the siege, nearly 13,000 flights by the airport’s count; today a civil airport beside EUFOR’s headquarters at Camp Butmir, from which the 2nd Helicopter Squadron flies rescue and firefighting missions.Open the Sarajevo International Airport (Butmir) page

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Irish Air Corps bases

Ireland keeps every military aircraft at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel; Gormanston closed to air operations in 2002, and the wartime detachment at Rineanna is now Shannon Airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 bases, active and closed, is on the Irish Air Corps page.

County Dublin (South Dublin)Casement AerodromeA British training field of the First World War, the Air Service’s headquarters since 1922 and still the Air Corps’ only airfield: the Bremen left here on 12 April 1928 for the first east-to-west Atlantic crossing, Ireland’s first jets arrived on 30 July 1956, and in 2025–2026 it received the C295s, the Falcon 6X and the Garda’s Viking 400.Open the Casement Aerodrome page

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Cyprus Air Command bases

Cyprus flies its helicopters from Andreas Papandreou Air Base at Paphos; Nicosia’s airport has been closed inside the UN buffer zone since 1974, and RAF Akrotiri is British sovereign territory, not a Cypriot base. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases, active and closed, is on the Cyprus Air Command page.

Paphos DistrictAndreas PapandreouBuilt under the 1993 Joint Defence Doctrine with Greece and handed over on 24 January 1998, the military side of Paphos airport took its first four Greek F-16s on 16 June 1998, was home to the Air Command’s Mi-35P gunships from 2002, and has hosted Greek F-16s again since March 2026.Open the Andreas Papandreou page

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Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta bases

Malta keeps every military aircraft at Luqa, in the Military Zone of the national airport that was RAF Luqa until 1979. These are the pages published so far; the full map of its one base is on the Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta page.

Luqa, island of MaltaLuqa (Malta International Airport) – AFM Air WingBuilt in 1940 and the RAF’s main Maltese station through the siege and the Cold War until the last RAF flight left on 1 April 1979; today Malta International Airport, where the Air Wing keeps all its aircraft in the Military Zone on Apron 7, and where two Libyan Mirage F1s landed on 21 February 2011.Open the Luqa (Malta International Airport) – AFM Air Wing page

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Ukrainian Air Force bases

Ukraine lost Belbek and Saky in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014 and considered part of Ukraine by UN General Assembly resolution 68/262 and most states, and Melitopol to Russian occupation in 2022, and gave up the strategic bomber bases at Pryluky and Poltava after independence; it does not publish wartime basing. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases, active and closed, is on the Ukrainian Air Force page.

Kyiv OblastVasylkivAn airfield of 1938 some 40 km south of Kyiv, a MiG-25 interceptor base until 1993 and, before the full-scale invasion, the home of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade’s MiG-29s; on 12 March 2022 the town’s mayor said Russian missiles had left it "completely destroyed".Open the Vasylkiv pagePoltava OblastMyrhorodUSAAF Station 561 in the Operation Frantic shuttle raids of 1944 and, from 1985 until the full-scale invasion, the Su-27 base of the regiment that became the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, whose display pilot Col. Oleksandr Oksanchenko was killed over Kyiv on 25 February 2022.Open the Myrhorod page

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Russian Aerospace Forces bases

Russia’s listed bases run from Kubinka and Lipetsk near Moscow to Olenya in the Arctic and Belaya and Ukrainka in Siberia and the Far East, and Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb of 1 June 2025 reached as far as Belaya. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 15 bases, active and closed, is on the Russian Aerospace Forces page.

Moscow OblastKubinkaOpened in 1935 some 60 km west of Moscow and the air force’s shop window for most of its history, where the Russian Knights and the Swifts display teams formed in April and May 1991; English Wikipedia, citing the Kyiv Post, reports a drone attack that caused fires at the base on 7 May 2025.Open the Kubinka pageLipetsk OblastLipetskWhere the Weimar Reichswehr secretly trained about 120 fighter pilots in 1926–1933, and the home of the Aerospace Forces’ chief combat training centre, named after Valery Chkalov, which works out the tactics for new types; Ukraine has claimed repeated drone strikes on the base since 2024.Open the Lipetsk page

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Russian Naval Aviation bases

Russian Naval Aviation flies from the Kola Peninsula to Kamchatka, with its carrier fighters at Severomorsk-3 and its training centre at Yeysk on the Sea of Azov. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the Russian Naval Aviation page.

Murmansk Oblast (Kola Peninsula)Severomorsk-3A naval airfield on the Kola Peninsula since 1950, where the 987th regiment flew Tu-16 missile carriers from 1952 to 1993 and the 279th regiment arrived with Yak-38 jump jets in 1976; today it holds Russia’s entire carrier aviation, the Su-33s of the 279th and the MiG-29KR/KUBRs of the 100th, while Admiral Kuznetsov is non-operational.Open the Severomorsk-3 pageKrasnodar Krai (Sea of Azov coast)YeyskA Sea of Azov airfield that served a military aviation institute in the Cold War and has been naval aviation’s combat training and conversion centre since 1 February 2010, when the 859th centre opened with units from Ostrov and Kacha; since 2024 it has been attacked repeatedly by Ukrainian drones, with Wikipedia recording an Il-38N and a Ka-27 among the aircraft hit.Open the Yeysk page

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Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus bases

Belarus flies its fighters from Baranovichi, its Su-25s from Lida and its transports from Machulishchy, keeps Babruysk and Luninets in reserve and no longer flies from Zyabrovka, Pruzhany and Ross. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus page.

Brest Region (Brestskaya voblasts), BaranovichiBaranovichiBuilt around 1950 for the Soviet 61st Fighter Aviation Regiment and a Tu-22 bomber base in the 1960s, it is Belarus’s fighter base, where the first Su-30SMs landed on 13 November 2019; the MiG-29 launched during the Ryanair diversion of 23 May 2021 took off from here, according to the ministry, and Russian Su-35Ss used it from February to April 2022, AirForces Monthly reported.Open the Baranovichi pageMinsk Region (Minskaya voblasts), Minsk DistrictMachulishchyThe air force’s transport and helicopter base on the southern edge of Minsk, a Soviet Tu-22 field in the 1960s, whose Il-76MDs flew aid and vaccines between China and Minsk in 2020–2021; on 26 February 2023 the opposition group BYPOL claimed a drone attack on a Russian A-50 parked here, and satellite imagery two days later showed no visible damage.Open the Machulishchy page

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Moldovan Air Force bases

Moldova flies from one air base, Mărculești, inherited with a Soviet MiG-29 regiment in 1992; Tiraspol, in the Transnistrian region outside Moldovan government control, has never been used by the Moldovan Air Force. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases, active and closed, is on the Moldovan Air Force page.

Florești District, northern MoldovaMărculeștiA Soviet fighter base from 1951 that flew four generations of Mikoyan fighters, Moldova’s only air base since the MiG-29 regiment passed to it on 12 April 1992, and the field most of those MiG-29s left from, 21 of them for the United States in 1997; the last six are grounded here.Open the Mărculești page

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Georgian Air Force bases

Georgia keeps its jets at Marneuli and its helicopters at Alekseevka in Tbilisi; the former Soviet airfields at Vaziani and Senaki are now Defence Forces bases, and Kopitnari is Kutaisi International Airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the Georgian Air Force page.

Kvemo KartliMarneuliThe Georgian Air Force’s fixed-wing base, about 20 km south of Tbilisi: home of the Su-25 and L-39 squadrons in 2008, struck by Russian aircraft on 8 August 2008 with three people killed, and where the jets stood in storage until Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing was contracted to restore them in July 2020.Open the Marneuli page

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Armenian Air Force bases

Armenia’s military aviation is centred on Erebuni, which it shares with Russia’s 3624th Air Base; Su-25s have flown from Gyumri, and pilots train at Arzni. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 bases, active and closed, is on the Armenian Air Force page.

Yerevan, 7 km south of the city centreErebuniArmenia’s only military aerodrome in the AIP, 7 km south of Yerevan: a Soviet fighter field from 1938, and since the 1990s home both to Armenian helicopters and to Russia’s 3624th Air Base, whose 18 MiG-29s arrived in 1998–1999 by Wikipedia’s count, under a treaty that runs to 2044.Open the Erebuni page

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Azerbaijani Air Forces bases

Azerbaijan flies from former Soviet airfields, with Nasosnaya, Kurdamir, Ganja and Kala the main bases according to English Wikipedia, while Sitalchay has not been operational since 1992 and Jane’s called Dallar non-operational in 2009. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the Azerbaijani Air Forces page.

Kurdamir District (Kürdəmir rayonu), central AzerbaijanKurdamirHome of the Soviet 976th regiment for 39 years, from MiG-15s to Su-24M bombers, until it left for Russia in June 1992; a base for Azerbaijani MiG-21s in the first Karabakh war and for a bomber regiment in 2004, and the garrison Namig Islamzade commanded before he rose to lead the Air Forces.Open the Kurdamir page

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People’s Liberation Army Air Force bases

China publishes no list of its air bases; the selection here runs from Kashgar and Ngari Gunsa in the far west to Dandong on the Yalu and Shek Kong in Hong Kong. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases, active and closed, is on the People’s Liberation Army Air Force page.

Zhejiang Province, HangzhouHangzhou JianqiaoOne of China’s oldest airfields, set up by a Zhejiang warlord in 1922: home of the Nationalist Central Aviation School from 1931, scene of the air battle of 14 August 1937 that the Republic of China Air Force, now in Taiwan, marks as Air Force Memorial Day, Hangzhou’s airport from 1957 and a PLA Air Force base only since 29 December 2000.Open the Hangzhou Jianqiao pageHong Kong Special Administrative Region, New Territories (Yuen Long District)Shek KongBegun in 1938 and finished in 1950 as RAF Sek Kong, home of Spitfires and Vampires and later of No. 28 Squadron’s Wessex helicopters until November 1996; since the handover on 1 July 1997 the PLA Hong Kong Garrison’s helicopter base, with the Hong Kong Aviation Club’s light aircraft still flying at weekends.Open the Shek Kong page

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People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force bases

China does not publish a list of its naval air stations; Lingshui on Hainan, where a US EP-3E landed after the 2001 collision, is the one named most often in open sources. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and historic, is on the People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force page.

Hainan Province (Lingshui Li Autonomous County)LingshuiThe naval air station on the south-east coast of Hainan where, on 1 April 2001, a US Navy EP-3E landed after colliding with a naval J-8II whose pilot, Wang Wei, was killed, each government still blaming the other; English Wikipedia reports KJ-500 early-warning, KQ-200 anti-submarine and J-15 aircraft there today, though China lists no units.Open the Lingshui page

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Republic of China Air Force bases

Taiwan’s fighters fly from five bases on the island, four of them sharing their runways with civil airports, and from a detachment at Makung on Penghu; Taoyuan, the Black Cat Squadron’s U-2 base, closed in 2013. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases, active and closed, is on the Republic of China Air Force page.

Hualien County, Xincheng TownshipHualien (Chiashan)Taiwan’s F-16V base on the Pacific coast, with the Chiashan complex dug into the mountain behind it between 1985 and 1993 to shelter about 200 fighters; the last Taiwanese F-5s flew their final sortie here on 4 July 2025, and the first MQ-9B drones began flight tests here on 14 September 2026.Open the Hualien (Chiashan) pageHsinchu City, North DistrictHsinchuOpened by the Japanese as Shinchiku Airdrome in 1936, home of the 2nd Wing, whose Sabres fought the Sidewinder battle of 24 September 1958, and of the Black Bat Squadron’s covert flights over the mainland; since 1997 Taiwan’s only Mirage 2000-5 base.Open the Hsinchu pageChiayi CountyChiayiThe 4th Wing’s home since December 1948, a base for rotating US fighter squadrons from 1955 to 1968, and where Taiwan’s first F-16V combat wing was commissioned on 18 November 2021; the Air Rescue Group’s helicopters fly from here too.Open the Chiayi page

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Japan Air Self-Defense Force bases

Japan’s fighters fly from seven bases between Chitose in Hokkaido and Naha in Okinawa, and the busiest is Naha, where the Southwestern Air Defense Force flew 348 of the JASDF’s 595 scrambles in FY2025. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 16 bases, active and closed, is on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force page.

Okinawa PrefectureNahaThe Imperial Navy’s Oroku airfield of 1933, a US Air Force fighter base until 1971 and now the JASDF’s only air base in the south-western islands: two F-15 squadrons of the 9th Air Wing, E-2C/D Hawkeyes and, since March 2020, a second runway, all shared with Naha Airport.Open the Naha pageHokkaidoChitoseJapan’s northern fighter base: a navy field from 1939, a US F-86 base until 1957 and home of the 2nd Air Wing’s two F-15 squadrons and the government’s Boeing 777s; its F-4EJs could not find Viktor Belenko’s MiG-25 as it flew in low to Hakodate on 6 September 1976.Open the Chitose page

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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force aviation bases

JMSDF aviation flies from former Imperial Navy fields such as Kanoya, Atsugi and Iwakuni, two of them shared with American forces, and from a counter-piracy base in Djibouti. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases is on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force page.

Kanagawa PrefectureAtsugi (Naval Air Facility Atsugi)Built by the Imperial Navy in 1938, the field whose air group briefly refused the surrender and where General MacArthur landed on 30 August 1945; a US Naval Air Station from December 1950, shared with the JMSDF since 1971, it has been the headquarters of the Fleet Air Force since 1973 and home of the first all-P-1 squadron since 2017.Open the Atsugi (Naval Air Facility Atsugi) pageKagoshima PrefectureKanoyaHome of the Imperial Navy’s oldest medium-bomber group from 1936 and its main kamikaze base off Okinawa in 1945, from which Japanese Wikipedia counts 828 special-attack airmen; today home of Fleet Air Wing 1, flying the Kawasaki P-1 since July 2019, of the TH-135 helicopter school and of the Kanoya Air Base Museum.Open the Kanoya page

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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force aviation bases

GSDF aviation flies from pre-war airfields such as Akeno, Tachikawa and Kisarazu and, since 2025, from the new Camp Saga, home of its V-22 Ospreys. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and former, is on the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force aviation page.

Mie PrefectureCamp Akeno (Akeno Air Field)Opened by the Imperial Army in 1920 and its fighter pilots’ school from 1924, the home of the GSDF Aviation School since 1955, where almost every GSDF helicopter pilot has learnt to fly; it also houses an AH-1S squadron, the Flight Experimental Squadron and the Akeno Rainbow display team.Open the Camp Akeno (Akeno Air Field) pageChiba PrefectureCamp Kisarazu (Kisarazu Air Field)Opened in 1936 as an Imperial Navy bomber base, where Japan’s first jet, the Nakajima Kikka, made its only full flight on 7 August 1945; home of the 1st Helicopter Brigade since 25 March 1968, with its Chinooks, UH-60JAs and EC-225LP VIP flight, and of the GSDF’s V-22s from 2020 until their move to Saga in 2025.Open the Camp Kisarazu (Kisarazu Air Field) page

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Republic of Korea Air Force bases

South Korea’s F-15Ks, F-35As and first KF-21s each fly from a single base — Daegu, Cheongju and Yecheon — and the US Air Force shares Osan and Kunsan. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 15 bases, active and closed, is on the Republic of Korea Air Force page.

Daegu Metropolitan City (Dong-gu)DaeguK-2 to the Americans, where ten F-51D Mustangs of the Bout One detachment arrived on 4 July 1950; home of the 11th Fighter Wing since 1958 and of all 59 F-15K Slam Eagles, and due to move with the civil airport to a new site in Gunwi and Uiseong counties.Open the Daegu pageNorth Chungcheong Province (Chungcheongbuk-do), CheongjuCheongjuOpened in 1978, a Phantom base for about 40 years and since 29 March 2019 South Korea’s F-35A base, with the 151st and 152nd Squadrons of the 17th Fighter Wing and the air force’s weapons school; the runways are shared with Cheongju International Airport.Open the Cheongju pageSouth Gyeongsang Province (Gyeongsangnam-do), SacheonSacheonK-4 in the Korean War, home of the 3rd Flying Training Wing since 1973 and its KT-1s since 2000, and the site of the Korea Aerospace Industries factory that builds the T-50 and the KF-21, which first flew from here on 19 July 2022.Open the Sacheon page

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Republic of Korea Navy aviation (Naval Air Command) bases

South Korea’s naval aviation flies from Pohang, a navy-owned airfield it shares with a civil airport and the Marine Corps, with smaller stations at Jinhae and Mokpo and a detachment at Jeju. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 bases is on the Republic of Korea Navy aviation page.

North Gyeongsang Province (Gyeongsangbuk-do), PohangPohang NavalThe Korean War’s K-3, abandoned to North Korean troops on 13 August 1950, and since 16 July 1978 the headquarters of the navy’s air arm: home of the six P-8A Poseidons that arrived in June 2024 and the remaining Orions, scene of the P-3CK crash that killed four on 29 May 2025, and a navy-owned runway shared with Pohang Gyeongju Airport.Open the Pohang Naval page

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Korean People’s Army Air Force bases

North Korea publishes no list of its air bases; the ones listed here run from Uiju on the Yalu to Taetan near the demilitarised zone, and Wonsan Kalma is the only one most outsiders have seen. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the Korean People’s Army Air Force page.

Kangwon Province (Kangwon-do)Wonsan Kalma AirportAn airfield on the Kalma peninsula east of Wonsan that changed hands twice in 1950, when US Marine Corsairs flew from it as K-25; rebuilt from 2013 as the airport of the Wonsan tourist zone, it held North Korea’s only international air festival in 2016 and the air force’s 80th anniversary display on 28 November 2025.Open the Wonsan Kalma Airport page

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Indian Air Force bases

India flies the Rafale from Ambala and Hasimara, the Mirage 2000 from Gwalior and its biggest transports from Hindan on the edge of Delhi. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 18 bases, active and closed, is on the Indian Air Force page.

Haryana (Ambala district)Ambala Air Force StationOne of the oldest military airfields in South Asia, with an airstrip by 1919 and a permanent station from 1938; struck in Pakistan’s opening raid of 3 December 1971, and since September 2019 the home of No. 17 Squadron, the IAF’s first Rafale squadron.Open the Ambala Air Force Station pageUttar Pradesh (Ghaziabad district)Hindan Air Force StationWhere India’s biggest aircraft live, on the eastern edge of Delhi: the C-17s of No. 81 Squadron and the C-130Js of No. 77, which flew the IAF’s best-known airlifts from Nepal in 2015 to Kabul in 2021. A Hunter and Mystère base after the 1965 war, it has held the Air Force Day parade since 2006.Open the Hindan Air Force Station pageMadhya Pradesh (Gwalior district)Gwalior Air Force Station (Maharajpur)Built by the RAF in 1942 as a pilot training base, home of the Mirage 2000 since No. 7 Squadron converted on 29 June 1985 and of the Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment; its Mirages made the IAF’s first operational use of laser-guided bombs in Kargil in 1999.Open the Gwalior Air Force Station (Maharajpur) page

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Indian Naval Air Arm bases

The Indian Naval Air Arm flies from INS Hansa at Goa, the former Portuguese airport of Dabolim, from INS Garuda at Kochi, where it began in 1953, and from stations reaching to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases is on the Indian Naval Air Arm page.

GoaINS HansaCommissioned at Sulur on 5 September 1961 and moved to Goa after the Portuguese-built Dabolim airport was handed to the navy in April 1962, the navy’s largest air station: home of the MiG-29Ks of INAS 300 and 303, of a Shore Based Test Facility that reproduces a carrier deck, of P-8Is, Ka-31s and, since December 2025, MH-60Rs, on a runway shared with Goa’s older civil airport.Open the INS Hansa pageKeralaINS GarudaWhere Indian naval aviation began, on Willingdon Island in Kochi harbour: the first unit, two Short Sealands, was commissioned here on 11 May 1953 and still flies as INAS 550, now with Dornier 228s; today the navy’s aviation training centre and, since 6 March 2024, home of INAS 334, its first MH-60R squadron.Open the INS Garuda page

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Army Aviation Corps (India) bases

The Army Aviation Corps owns one airfield, Gandhinagar at Nashik, home of its training school, and bases its brigades at Leh, Missamari and Jodhpur. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Army Aviation Corps page.

Maharashtra (Nashik district)Gandhinagar, NashikA public airport served by Indian Airlines, Vayudoot and Maharashtra-Span Air from 1972 to 1997, now the one airfield the Army Aviation Corps owns and runs itself, and since 1 September 2003 home of the Combat Army Aviation Training School, where Capt. Abhilasha Barak trained to become the army’s first woman combat aviator in 2022.Open the Gandhinagar, Nashik page

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Pakistan Air Force bases

Pakistan flies its J-10CEs from Minhas, beside the factory at Kamra that builds the JF-17, runs its Combat Commanders’ School at Mushaf and bases its southern strike wing at Masroor in Karachi. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases is on the Pakistan Air Force page.

Punjab (Sargodha District)PAF Base MushafSargodha’s air base, commissioned in 1959: the first target of India’s counter-air campaign in 1965, where Pakistan credits M. M. Alam with five Indian Hunters in about a minute, a claim India denies; home of the Combat Commanders’ School since 1976, and among the bases India said it struck on 10 May 2025.Open the PAF Base Mushaf pagePunjab (Attock District), at KamraPAF Base MinhasA 1942 airfield at Kamra beside the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, where the JF-17 is built; named after Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, it received Pakistan’s first J-10CEs on 11 March 2022 and flies the Saab 2000 Erieye, one of which was destroyed in a militant attack on 16 August 2012.Open the PAF Base Minhas pageSindh (Karachi, Mauripur)PAF Base MasroorBuilt in 1942 at Mauripur as a wartime transit field for Karachi, used by the RAF until 1956 and renamed Masroor in 1968; the largest PAF base by area, by Wikipedia’s account, and home of 32 Tactical Attack Wing with JF-17s and the last Mirage IIIs.Open the PAF Base Masroor page

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Pakistan Naval Air Arm bases

The Pakistan Naval Air Arm flies from PNS Mehran in Karachi, beside PAF Base Faisal, and from PNS Siddiq at Turbat. These are the pages published so far; the full list of air stations is on the Pakistan Naval Air Arm page.

Sindh (Karachi, Faisal Cantonment)PNS MehranThe navy’s first air station, commissioned on 26 September 1975 beside PAF Base Faisal in Karachi, home of the Sea King, Atlantic and Orion squadrons, where militants destroyed two P-3C Orions in May 2011 and the first Sea Sultan patrol jet was inducted in September 2021.Open the PNS Mehran page

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Pakistan Army Aviation Corps bases

The Pakistan Army Aviation Corps is headquartered at Qasim Army Aviation Base (Dhamial) in Rawalpindi. These are the pages published so far; the full list of bases is on the Pakistan Army Aviation Corps page.

Punjab (Rawalpindi)Qasim Army Aviation Base (Dhamial)A 1941 parachute training field reopened on 15 October 1962 as the Pakistan Army’s first air base, where its first 18 helicopters arrived in crates on 27 June 1964; renamed in 1972 after Major Muhammad Qasim, it is now the corps’ headquarters and overhauls its Mi-17, Bell 412 and Cobra fleets.Open the Qasim Army Aviation Base (Dhamial) page

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Bangladesh Air Force bases

Bangladesh keeps its fighters at Kurmitola and its transports and helicopters at Bashar, both in Dhaka, where the Milestone school crash of July 2025 led the official probe to recommend moving initial flying training out of the capital. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases is on the Bangladesh Air Force page.

Dhaka Division, Dhaka (Tejgaon)BAF Base BasharBuilt from 1941 as Tejgaon, Dhaka’s first airfield: the Pakistan Air Force’s station in the east until Indian bombing grounded its Sabres in December 1971, the scene of the mutiny of 2 October 1977, and today the air force’s transport and helicopter base.Open the BAF Base Bashar pageDhaka Division, Dhaka (Kurmitola, Dhaka Cantonment)BAF Base Bir Uttam A. K. KhandkerThe fighter base, on the military side of Dhaka’s international airport at Kurmitola: opened as BAF Base Bangabandhu in 2013, renamed in 2025 after the first Chief of Air Staff, and the base from which an FT-7BGI on a first solo took off before crashing into Milestone School on 21 July 2025.Open the BAF Base Bir Uttam A. K. Khandker page

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Sri Lanka Air Force bases

Sri Lanka keeps both its fighter squadrons at Katunayake, beside the international airport, and trains its pilots at China Bay on the harbour of Trincomalee. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases is on the Sri Lanka Air Force page.

Western Province, Gampaha DistrictSLAF Base KatunayakeBuilt by the RAF in 1944 as RAF Negombo and the air force’s main base ever since: home of the F-7s from 1991 and the Kfirs from 1996, attacked by Black Tiger commandos on 24 July 2001 and bombed by the LTTE’s light aircraft in 2007, and where the first Kfir rebuilt to C12 standard flew on 11 June 2026.Open the SLAF Base Katunayake pageEastern Province, Trincomalee DistrictSLAF Academy China BayRAF Station China Bay from March 1942, bombed by Japanese carrier aircraft on 9 April 1942 and the launch point of the only B-29 raid flown from Ceylon; since 1963, apart from 1988–2009, the base where every Sri Lanka Air Force pilot learns to fly.Open the SLAF Academy China Bay page

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Afghan Air Force bases

Afghanistan’s air force has changed hands with its governments, most recently in August 2021, when the Islamic Republic collapsed and its bases passed to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Afghan Air Force page.

Parwan ProvinceBagramThe airfield on the Shomali plain from which the Saur Revolution was flown on 27 April 1978, a hub of the Soviet war, the largest US base in Afghanistan from December 2001 until US forces left on 1–2 July 2021, held by the Taliban since 15 August 2021 and, according to Pakistani officials, struck by Pakistan on 1 March 2026.Open the Bagram page

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Kazakh Air Defense Forces bases

Kazakhstan kept four fast-jet bases after independence — Zhetigen, Shymkent, Taldykorgan and Karaganda — and never flew from Chagan, whose Soviet Tu-95s had gone back to Russia by 1994. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases, active and closed, is on the Kazakh Air Defense Forces page.

Jetisu Region (Zhetysu), since 2022; Almaty Region beforeTaldykorganThe 604th Air Base, sharing a 3,000-metre runway with the city’s civil airport: home of two Soviet regiments taken over in 1992, a MiG-27 base until the type was retired in 2023, and the place where Kazakhstan’s first four Su-30SMs were handed over on 1 May 2015.Open the Taldykorgan pageKaraganda RegionKaraganda (Sary-Arka)The 610th Air Base at Sary-Arka airport, for three decades the only Kazakh MiG-31 base until the type was retired in 2023; a Karaganda pilot became the first woman to command a Su-30SM crew in 2021, and one of the base’s Su-30SMs crashed near the airport on 25 February 2026, both pilots ejecting.Open the Karaganda (Sary-Arka) page

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Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces bases

Uzbekistan disbanded its fighter regiments at Kokaydy and Andijan in 1999 and concentrated its combat aircraft at Karshi-Khanabad, which US forces used as K2 from 2001 to 2005. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces page.

Qashqadaryo Region, east of QarshiKarshi-KhanabadA Soviet bomber base from 1954, home of the 60th Separate Mixed Aviation Brigade per Wikipedia and, since 2019, of the Institute of Military Aviation; as K2 it held about 7,000 US personnel from October 2001 until 21 November 2005, after troops fired on a crowd in Andijan that May — 187 dead by the government’s count, several hundred to 1,500 by other estimates — and Tashkent answered Western criticism by telling the Americans to leave.Open the Karshi-Khanabad page

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Turkmen Air Force bases

Turkmenistan flies from Akdepe outside Ashgabat and, per Wikipedia, from Mary-2, keeps stored Soviet MiG-23s at Kyzyl-Arvat, and saw the Soviet aggressor unit at Mary-1 disbanded in 1993. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the Turkmen Air Force page.

Ahal Region, on the north-western edge of AshgabatAkdepe (Ak-Tepe)The military airfield on the north-western edge of Ashgabat and the air force’s main airfield according to Wikipedia: about 18 Su-25s refurbished in Georgia were here by 2004, and on 26 June 2008 President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov took off from it in a MiG-29 for a flight of about 30 minutes over the capital.Open the Akdepe (Ak-Tepe) page

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Kyrgyz Air Force bases

Kyrgyzstan shares Kant with Russia’s 999th Air Base, saw the US base at Manas close in 2014 and disbanded its storage base at Tokmok in 2001. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 bases, active and closed, is on the Kyrgyz Air Force page.

Chuy Region (Ysyk-Ata District)KantThe Chuy valley airfield where the Frunze school’s 322nd regiment formed in 1959, the year Kyrgyzstan dates its military aviation from; 46 inherited MiG-21s stood in storage here in 2006, and Russia’s 999th Air Base has flown Su-25s and Mi-8s from it since 23 October 2003.Open the Kant page

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Tajik Air Force bases

Tajikistan’s helicopters fly from Ayni, rebuilt by India, and from the civil airports at Dushanbe, Bokhtar and Khujand, per Wikipedia. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 6 bases, all of them active, is on the Tajik Air Force page.

Districts of Republican Subordination (Hisor District)AyniA decayed Soviet airfield west of Dushanbe that India rebuilt from 2002 with a 3,200-metre runway, declared complete by Tajikistan in September 2010; Indian C-17s and C-130Js staged through it in the Kabul evacuation of August 2021, and India’s withdrawal was reported complete in October 2025.Open the Ayni page

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Vietnam Air Defence – Air Force bases

Vietnam flies from former French and American bases such as Biên Hòa and from the North’s wartime MiG fields such as Kép and Yên Bái; the military side of Phúc Yên has been largely inactive since 2018. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 13 bases, active and closed, is on the Vietnam Air Defence – Air Force page.

Đồng Nai province, about 25 km north-east of Ho Chi Minh CityBiên HòaOpened by the French in 1953, a South Vietnamese and then a major American jet base of the war, where an explosion killed 28 Americans and six Vietnamese on 16 May 1965; today the Su-30MK2 base of Regiment 935, Division 370, launch base of the 30 April 2025 parade flypast and site of the largest Agent Orange dioxin clean-up in Vietnam.Open the Biên Hòa pageBắc Giang area, about 60 km north-east of Hanoi (Bắc Ninh province after the 2025 merger of provinces)KépBuilt in 1965 to bring MiGs closer to the American strike routes, the first North Vietnamese airfield the United States bombed, on 24 April 1967, and home to a North Korean MiG contingent in 1967–1969; Yak-130s trained here from October 2023, and Wikipedia names Regiment 927 as its resident unit.Open the Kép page

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Lao People’s Liberation Army Air Force bases

Laos flies from Vientiane and Phonsavan and has taken over little-used civil airports at Xieng Khouang and Attapeu; Long Tieng, the CIA-built base of the Secret War, has been a restricted army site since 1975. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Lao People’s Liberation Army Air Force page.

Xaisomboun Province (Longchaeng district)Long Tieng (Lima Site 20A)Built by the CIA from 1962 as the headquarters of Vang Pao’s Hmong army: Air America, the US Air Force’s Ravens and the Royal Lao Air Force’s Hmong T-28 squadron flew from a valley of perhaps 40,000 people, which held under North Vietnamese shelling until the evacuation of May 1975.Open the Long Tieng (Lima Site 20A) page

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Royal Cambodian Air Force bases

Cambodia’s air force keeps its headquarters at Pochentong, where civil flights ended in September 2025, and flies no combat jets; Kampong Cham, Ream and the unfinished Khmer Rouge jet base at Kampong Chhnang have closed. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 6 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Cambodian Air Force page.

Phnom PenhPochentongWhere Cambodian military flying began in 1954 and where the air force headquarters still stands: Base Aérienne 101 of the Khmer Air Force, where a North Vietnamese sapper raid destroyed or badly damaged 69 aircraft in one night in January 1971, and since September 2025 an airport without airlines, with the retired MiG-21s, L-39s and J-6s listed there as non-operational.Open the Pochentong page

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Royal Thai Air Force bases

Thailand flies its fighters from Korat, Takhli, Surat Thani and Ubon, and has flown from Don Muang, today its headquarters, since 1914; much of the base network is the one the US Air Force used until 1976. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 15 bases is on the Royal Thai Air Force page.

BangkokDon Muang Royal Thai Air Force BaseThailand’s first military airfield, flown from since March 1914: defended against Japanese aircraft on 8 December 1941, the first home of the US Air Force in Thailand from April 1961, and today the air force headquarters and Wing 6’s transport and royal flight squadrons, sharing two runways with Don Mueang International Airport.Open the Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base pageNakhon Ratchasima ProvinceKorat Royal Thai Air Force BaseBuilt in 1955, the home of the USAF 388th Tactical Fighter Wing’s F-105s and F-4s from 1966 to 1975, and since 1988 Thailand’s F-16 base, where Wing 1 flies the F-16A/B and the annual Cope Tiger exercise is held.Open the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base pageUdon Thani ProvinceUdorn Royal Thai Air Force BaseAir America’s Asian headquarters for the war in Laos and the base of the USAF 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, credited with 36 confirmed aerial victories from 1967 to 1973; today Wing 23’s Alpha Jets share its runway with Udon Thani International Airport.Open the Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base page

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Royal Thai Naval Air Division bases

The Royal Thai Navy flies from U-Tapao, the former American B-52 base it owns on the eastern Gulf coast, and from smaller fields from Songkhla to the Mekong. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Royal Thai Naval Air Division page.

Rayong ProvinceU-Tapao Royal Thai NavyThe Royal Thai Navy’s main air base and the division’s headquarters, built by the United States in 1965–1966 as the main B-52 base of the Vietnam War, where U-Tapao’s bombers flew 729 sorties in 11 days of Linebacker II; returned to Thailand on 13 June 1976, it shares a 3,505 m runway with U-Tapao International Airport and will receive the navy’s two C295s.Open the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy page

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Myanmar Air Force bases

Myanmar’s air force has flown from Mingaladon, Hmawbi and Meiktila since the early 1950s and has sent its newest aircraft to Tada-U, Namsang and Naypyidaw; resistance groups have claimed attacks on several bases since 2021. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases is on the Myanmar Air Force page.

Mandalay Region, Meiktila TownshipMeiktilaA 1942 airfield that was the lifeline of a besieged British-Indian division in March 1945, one of the Burmese Air Force’s three main bases by 1953, and today its workshop and ground-training centre with a Mi-35P squadron; rockets hit its runway on 29 April 2021, and Min Aung Hlaing presided over the commissioning of Su-30 and K-8W aircraft here on 12 March 2026.Open the Meiktila page

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Royal Malaysian Air Force bases

Malaysia flies its Su-30MKMs from Gong Kedak and its Hornets from Butterworth, home to Australian fighters until 1988, and ended operations at its oldest Kuala Lumpur base, Sungai Besi, in 2018. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Malaysian Air Force page.

Penang (Pulau Pinang), Seberang PeraiRMAF ButterworthOpened by the RAF in October 1941 and captured by the Japanese that December, Australia’s largest overseas air base for three decades, with Canberras, Sabres and Mirages until the last fighters left in May 1988, and today the RMAF’s Hornet base and the headquarters of the Five Power Defence Arrangements’ Integrated Area Defence System.Open the RMAF Butterworth pagePahangRMAF KuantanAn RAF field from 1935 on the east coast of the peninsula, an RMAF base since 24 June 1968, home of the A-4PTM Skyhawks until 1995 and of No. 19 Squadron’s MiG-29Ns until 2017, and the runway from which an F/A-18D took off before it crashed on 21 August 2025.Open the RMAF Kuantan page

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Royal Malaysian Navy aviation (Fleet Air Arm) bases

Malaysia’s navy aircraft fly from Lumut in Perak, with a drone squadron at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah. These are the pages published so far; the full list is on the Royal Malaysian Navy aviation page.

Lumut, Manjung District, PerakLumut Naval Base (KD Rajawali)The Royal Malaysian Navy’s main base since the move from Singapore began in 1984 and the home of its aviation since the Wasp entered service in 1988; it is the seat of RMN Naval Air HQ, and on 23 April 2024 two navy helicopters collided over the base, killing ten.Open the Lumut Naval Base (KD Rajawali) page

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Republic of Singapore Air Force bases

Singapore flies from four air bases on an island without the airspace to train all its crews, sends its pilots to the United States, Australia and France, and is to give up Paya Lebar from around 2030. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, four of them training detachments abroad, is on the Republic of Singapore Air Force page.

Western Water Catchment, West RegionTengahOpened by the RAF in 1939 and the first airfield on the island to fall in 1942, a store for up to 48 Red Beard nuclear bombs between 1962 and 1970 according to British documents declassified in 2000, the SADC’s first jet base from 1969 and today home of three F-16 squadrons, being enlarged to take the F-35.Open the Tengah pagePaya Lebar, North-East and East RegionsPaya LebarSingapore’s international airport from 20 August 1955 until Changi took over in 1981, a Concorde destination, then the RSAF’s F-5 and now F-15SG base, where Donald Trump landed for the 2018 summit with Kim Jong Un; it is to be vacated from around 2030 for a new town.Open the Paya Lebar page

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Indonesian Air Force bases

Indonesia flies its fighters from Iswahjudi, Pekanbaru and Makassar and its transports from Halim Perdanakusuma in Jakarta, and closed Kemayoran, Jakarta’s first international airport and a MiG base of the early 1960s, in 1985. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases, active and closed, is on the Indonesian Air Force page.

Jakarta (East Jakarta)Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force BaseA Dutch colonial airfield of 1924, Indonesian since 20 June 1950, the base from which the 30 September Movement launched its kidnap squads in 1965, and today the air force’s Jakarta transport base and headquarters of the National Air Operations Command, where six Rafales and the first A400M were handed over on 18 May 2026.Open the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base pageEast Java (Magetan Regency, Maospati)Iswahjudi Air Force BaseOpened by the Dutch colonial army in May 1940, home from 1961 of Indonesia’s Tu-16s, the first strategic bombers in Southeast Asia, then of the F-5E/F for 37 years and the F-16 since 1989 — two of which met US Navy Hornets near Bawean Island on 3 July 2003.Open the Iswahjudi Air Force Base pageSouth Sulawesi (Maros Regency, near Makassar)Sultan Hasanuddin Air Force BaseOpened by the Dutch as Kadieng on 27 September 1937, rebuilt by the Japanese partly with the forced labour of prisoners of war, bombed by Permesta rebels in 1958, and since 2003 the base of Squadron 11’s Su-27 and Su-30 Flankers beside Makassar’s international airport.Open the Sultan Hasanuddin Air Force Base page

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Indonesian Naval Aviation (Puspenerbal) bases

Indonesian naval aviation flies from Juanda, the airfield the navy built at Surabaya in the 1960s, and from Tanjungpinang in the Riau Islands. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases is on the Indonesian Naval Aviation page.

East Java (Sidoarjo Regency)Naval Air Station JuandaBuilt by the navy in 1960–1964 to replace the Dutch base at Morokrembangan, opened by naval aircraft on 22 September 1963 and named after Prime Minister Djuanda Kartawidjaja; home of the navy’s Il-28 torpedo bombers in the 1960s and today of Puspenerbal and Wing Udara 2, with Juanda International Airport a civil enclave on navy land.Open the Naval Air Station Juanda page

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Philippine Air Force bases

The Philippines keeps its FA-50 fighters at Basa and its headquarters at Villamor, the former Nichols Field, and took over Clark and Mactan when US forces left in 1991. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases is on the Philippine Air Force page.

Pasay, Metro Manila (National Capital Region)Colonel Jesus VillamorBuilt by the United States in 1919 as Nichols Field, bombed on 9 and 10 December 1941, seized by rebel officers in the coup attempt of December 1989, and today the PAF’s headquarters and home of the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing, sharing the runways of Ninoy Aquino International Airport.Open the Colonel Jesus Villamor pageFloridablanca, Pampanga (Central Luzon)Cesar BasaBuilt by the US Army Air Forces before the Pacific war and renamed in 1948 after Lt. César Basa, killed over Batangas on 12 December 1941: home of every PAF fighter from the Mustang to the FA-50, buried in ash by Mount Pinatubo in June 1991, and an EDCA location since 2016.Open the Cesar Basa page

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Royal Brunei Air Force bases

Brunei flies everything from Rimba, beside Brunei International Airport, which in 1974 replaced the old Japanese-built airfield at Berakas; British forces’ helicopters fly from Medicina Lines near Seria. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Brunei Air Force page.

Brunei-Muara DistrictRimba Air Force BaseThe whole Royal Brunei Air Force on one airfield: headquarters, every flying squadron and the drone squadron beside the runway of Brunei International Airport, where the C295MWs arrived from 2024 and where two US Air Force F-35s became, the air force said, the first American fifth-generation fighters to land in Brunei on 1 March 2024.Open the Rimba Air Force Base page

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Israeli Air Force bases

Israel flies from former RAF fields such as Ramat David and Tel Nof and from Negev bases built after the withdrawal from Sinai, among them Nevatim, Ramon and Ovda; its pilots train at Hatzerim, opened in 1966. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases, active and closed, is on the Israeli Air Force page.

Northern DistrictRamat David AirbaseAn RAF station that Egyptian Spitfires raided on 22 May 1948 believing it already Israeli, the birthplace of Israel’s jet force when 117 Squadron formed here on Meteors in 1953, and since 2021 the home of all three F-16C/D Barak squadrons, about 50 km from Lebanon and fired on by Hezbollah in September 2024.Open the Ramat David Airbase pageSouthern DistrictHatzerim AirbaseDeclared operational on 3 October 1966 as the first air base Israel built for itself, home of the Flight School and its three-year pilot course, the longest in the IDF, and of the Israeli Air Force Museum, where the Iraqi MiG-21 flown to Israel in 1966 is on show; F-15Is from here struck Al Kibar in 2007, according to Wikipedia.Open the Hatzerim Airbase pageSouthern DistrictNevatim AirbaseBuilt in 1980–1983 to replace the bases given up in Sinai, Israel’s F-35I base since the first two Adirs landed on 12 December 2016, the base hit hardest by Iran’s missiles in April and October 2024, and since 28 May 2026 the home of 46 Squadron’s KC-46A tankers.Open the Nevatim Airbase page

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Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force bases

Iran’s air force flies from bases most of which were built under the Shah, from Mehrabad in Tehran to Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz, and most share their runways with civil airports; Iran does not publish which squadrons are at each. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force page.

Tehran ProvinceMehrabad (Tehran Mehrabad International Airport)Tehran’s domestic airport and, by English Wikipedia’s account, the air force’s largest base, where Iran’s first jets arrived in 1956 and Ayatollah Khomeini landed from exile on 1 February 1979; Wikipedia says an Israeli strike hit two F-14s here on 14 June 2025 and records another strike on 3 March 2026.Open the Mehrabad (Tehran Mehrabad International Airport) pageHamadan Province (Kabudarahang County)Shahid Nojeh (Hamadan)Known as Shahrokhi before the revolution and renamed after Capt. Mohammad Noje, the base near Hamadan gave its name to the coup plot of July 1980 and launched the Phantoms of Kaman 99, the Osirak raid and the H-3 raid; Russian bombers flew from it against Syria in August 2016, and the Israeli military says it struck it on 13 June 2025.Open the Shahid Nojeh (Hamadan) page

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Iraqi Air Force bases

Iraq flies its F-16s from Balad, the former US Joint Base Balad, and English Wikipedia places its transport squadron at New Al Muthana beside Baghdad International Airport; most of its bases were in US hands for part of the years from 2003 to 2026. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 13 bases, active and closed, is on the Iraqi Air Force page.

Saladin Governorate (Salah ad-Din)BaladBuilt in 1983 as Al-Bakr Air Base for the war with Iran, then Joint Base Balad, where US troops nicknamed it “Mortaritaville” and traffic was second only to Heathrow according to Wikipedia; handed back to Iraq on 8 November 2011, it has been the home of the 9th Fighter Squadron’s F-16IQs since 13 July 2015, supported by US contractors.Open the Balad page

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Syrian Air Force bases

Syria’s air force flew from fighter bases such as Shayrat, Tiyas (T-4) and Dumayr, many of which changed hands or were struck by Israel when the Assad government fell in December 2024; Wikipedia, citing Janes, lists Kuweires and Abu al-Duhur as active in 2026. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 13 bases, active and closed, is on the Syrian Air Force page.

Homs GovernorateShayratBuilt in the 1960s with two runways and about 40 hardened shelters, the base of the 50th Air Brigade, whose Su-22s, OPCW investigators found, dropped sarin on Ltamenah in March 2017, a finding the government of the time rejected; struck by 59 US Tomahawks on 7 April 2017 and by Israel in December 2024, it has no published role under the new government.Open the Shayrat page

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Royal Jordanian Air Force bases

Jordan flies its F-16s from Muwaffaq Salti at Azraq and trains its pilots at Mafraq, a former RAF station; its desert bases H-4 and H-5 began as pumping stations on the Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all ten airfields, active and closed, is on the Royal Jordanian Air Force page.

Mafraq GovernorateKing HusseinRAF Mafraq until the British left on 31 May 1957, then Jordan’s front-line Hunter base, which scrambled eight Hunters over Samu on 13 November 1966 and was struck by Israel on 5 June 1967; since 1978 the King Hussein Air College, where Jordan’s pilots learn to fly and the first female cadets graduated in 2020.Open the King Hussein page

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Lebanese Air Force bases

Lebanon flies from four bases — Rayak in the Bekaa, where the air force was founded in 1949, Beirut airport, Hamat near Batroun and Kleyate in the north — and once flew Hunters from a strip on the coastal highway at Halat. These are the pages published so far; the full list of all seven bases and airfields, active and closed, is on the Lebanese Air Force page.

Beqaa Governorate (Zahle District)RayakFirst laid as a sand strip in 1914, the birthplace of the Lebanese Air Force on 10 June 1949 and its headquarters until 1969, bombed by Israeli jets on 13 July 2006 and the last flight line of the Hunters from 2008; today, by English Wikipedia’s account, home to the Gazelle and training squadrons, the aviation and technical schools and the air force museum.Open the Rayak page

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Royal Saudi Air Force bases

Saudi Arabia flies from bases spread from Tabuk in the north-west to Dhahran on the Gulf and Khamis Mushait near the Yemeni border, several of them built by American engineers; Riyadh’s old air base gave way to King Salman Air Base in 2025. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Saudi Air Force page.

Eastern Province (Dhahran)King AbdulazizBuilt by the United States in 1945–1946 and run by the US Air Force until 1962, then Dhahran International Airport until civil flights left in 1999; the Desert Shield base of American F-15s, where an Iraqi Scud killed 28 Americans on 25 February 1991, and where Riyadh confirmed the arrival of a Pakistani fighter contingent in April 2026.Open the King Abdulaziz pageAsir Province (Khamis Mushait)King KhalidThe Royal Saudi Air Force’s main base near the Yemeni border, on the Asir plateau at about 2,050 m: the first Magic Carpet Lightnings and Hunters were deployed here in July 1966, US F-117s flew from it in 1991 according to Wikipedia, and since 2015 the coalition has repeatedly reported intercepting Houthi drones aimed at Khamis Mushait.Open the King Khalid page

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United Arab Emirates Air Force bases

The UAE flies its fighters from Al Dhafra, which it shares with American and French forces, and, according to Wikipedia, from Al Safran deep in the desert; Al Minhad near Dubai has been the Gulf hub of coalition partners since 2001. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the United Arab Emirates Air Force page.

Emirate of DubaiAl MinhadA UAE Air Force base of Central Air Command about 24 km south of Dubai, where English Wikipedia lists Hawks, Hercules and A330 tankers, and the Gulf hub of coalition forces since 2001: Canada’s Camp Mirage until it closed in a landing-rights row on 3 November 2010, Australia’s Middle East headquarters since 2008 and the RAF’s 906 Expeditionary Air Wing, with permanent UK quarters, Donnelly Lines, opened in March 2024.Open the Al Minhad page

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Qatar Emiri Air Force bases

Qatar flies from Al Udeid, its headquarters since the base was built in 1996, from Tamim near Dukhan and from the old Doha International Airport, and keeps joint squadrons in Britain. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all six bases, at home and abroad, is on the Qatar Emiri Air Force page.

Doha (Ad Dawhah municipality)Doha InternationalQatar’s only international airport from 1959 to 2014 and the first home of the air force’s Mirage F1s and Alpha Jets, it hosted Canadian CF-18s and US F-16s in the 1991 Gulf War; since the airlines left on 27 May 2014 it has served the air force and the Qatar Amiri Flight.Open the Doha International page

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Royal Bahraini Air Force bases

Bahrain flies its F-16s and jet trainers from Isa Air Base, built for the first F-16s and opened formally in 1993, its helicopters from Riffa and its transports from Sakhir. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Royal Bahraini Air Force page.

Southern GovernorateIsaBuilt for Bahrain’s first F-16s and formally opened on 2 February 1993, a crowded coalition base of the 1991 Gulf war with close to 200 US aircraft according to GlobalSecurity, and today home of the Fighter and Training Wings; the first F-16 Block 70s delivered anywhere arrived here in 2024, and one claimed the version’s first air-to-air kills on 1 April 2026.Open the Isa page

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Kuwait Air Force bases

Kuwait flies its Hornets from Ahmad al-Jaber and its Typhoons, helicopters and trainers from Ali Al Salem, the two air bases built in the mid-1970s and rebuilt after 1991, with its headquarters at Kuwait International Airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Kuwait Air Force page.

KuwaitAhmad al-JaberBuilt by Yugoslav contractors in the mid-1970s, the base where Kuwaiti Mirage F1s and Skyhawks landed on the perimeter road after Iraqi mines closed the runways on 2 August 1990; bombed by the coalition in 1991, it has been the home of the F/A-18C/D Hornets of 9 and 25 Squadrons since 1991–1993 and hosts the US 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing.Open the Ahmad al-Jaber page

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Royal Air Force of Oman bases

Oman flies from Thumrait and Adam in the interior, from the island of Masirah, from Musannah and Seeb on the northern coast, from Salalah in Dhofar and from Khasab on the Musandam peninsula; Masirah and Salalah were RAF stations until 1977. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all eight bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Air Force of Oman page.

Dhofar GovernorateRAFO ThumraitThe desert waypoint British officers called Midway in the Dhofar war, then the Sultan’s strike base, where Nos 8 and 20 Squadrons flew Jaguars from March 1977 until the last four were retired on 6 August 2014; its 4,000-metre runway and a US bare-base set for 1,100 people, according to GlobalSecurity, supported Desert Shield in 1990 and the war in Afghanistan from 2001.Open the RAFO Thumrait pageMasirah Island, South Al Sharqiyah GovernorateRAFO MasirahAn island airfield that began as an RAF staging post in 1929 and stayed British until 31 March 1977, the launch point of Operation Eagle Claw on 24 April 1980, and today the RAFO training base and home of the Sultan Qaboos Air Academy, where a Hawk Mk 166 crashed on landing on 1 April 2018.Open the RAFO Masirah page

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Yemeni Air Force bases

Yemen’s two main air bases are on opposite sides of the war: Al Anad in the south, held by the internationally recognised government since 2015, and al-Dailami at Sanaa airport, held by the Houthi authorities. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all six bases is on the Yemeni Air Force page.

Lahij Governorate (Tuban district)Al AnadBuilt by the Soviet Union for South Yemen according to an AFP report cited by Wikipedia, which calls it the biggest air base in Yemen; bombed and fought over in 1994, the headquarters of US counter-terrorism operations in the south until March 2015, taken by Houthi forces on 25 March 2015 and held by the internationally recognised government since 3 August 2015, and a repeated target of Houthi missiles and drones since.Open the Al Anad page

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Royal Australian Air Force bases

Australia flies its fighters from Williamtown, Amberley and Tindal and keeps Curtin, Learmonth and Scherger as bare bases, while Point Cook, where military flying began in 1914, is still an RAAF base. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 17 bases, active and closed, is on the Royal Australian Air Force page.

New South WalesRAAF Base WilliamtownOpened on 15 February 1941 to guard the port and steelworks of Newcastle and home of the Hornet from 1985 until its retirement here in 2021, today Australia’s main fighter base, where Nos 3 and 77 Squadrons and No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit fly the F-35A alongside the E-7A Wedgetail and the Hawk 127, on a runway shared with Newcastle Airport.Open the RAAF Base Williamtown pageQueenslandRAAF Base AmberleyOpened in June 1940 near Ipswich and a major US Army Air Forces base in 1942–1943, then the home of the F-111 from 1973 to 2010, today what the Air Force calls Defence’s largest operational air base, with Super Hornets, Growlers, KC-30A tankers and C-17A and C-27J transports.Open the RAAF Base Amberley pageVictoriaRAAF Base Point CookWhere the Central Flying School made the first Australian military flight on 1 March 1914 and the RAAF’s only base from 1921 to 1925, described by Wikipedia as the oldest continually operating military airfield in the world; today part of RAAF Williams and home of the RAAF Museum and No. 100 Squadron’s heritage aircraft.Open the RAAF Base Point Cook page

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Fleet Air Arm (Royal Australian Navy) bases

The Fleet Air Arm flies every one of its squadrons from HMAS Albatross at Nowra, its only air station since 1948, with Jervis Bay Airfield as a satellite; the former air station HMAS Nirimba at Schofields closed in 1994. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all three bases, active and closed, is on the Fleet Air Arm page.

New South Wales, City of Shoalhaven (near Nowra)HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station Nowra)Opened by the RAAF on 7 May 1942 and run by the Royal Navy for the British Pacific Fleet as HMS Nabbington, commissioned as HMAS Albatross on 31 August 1948 and the shore home of the carrier air groups until 1982; today the navy’s only air station, home of every Fleet Air Arm squadron from the MH-60R units to 822X’s drones, and of the Fleet Air Arm Museum.Open the HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station Nowra) page

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Australian Army Aviation bases

Australian Army Aviation trains at Oakey, flies its Chinooks, Black Hawks and Apaches from RAAF Base Townsville and its special operations Black Hawks from Holsworthy, and flew the Tiger from Robertson Barracks, Darwin, until September 2026. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Australian Army Aviation page.

Queensland (Toowoomba Region)Oakey Army Aviation CentreBuilt by the RAAF in 1943 for No. 6 Aircraft Depot and taken over by the Army on 1 July 1969, the home of Army aviation training ever since: the Army Aviation Training Centre and the School of Army Aviation fly leased H135T3 Junos here, the first Tigers were handed over here on 15 December 2004, and a Singaporean Chinook detachment shares the field.Open the Oakey Army Aviation Centre page

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Royal New Zealand Air Force bases

New Zealand flies from Ohakea, its P-8A, helicopter and training base, and from Whenuapai in Auckland, its transport base, with Woodbourne as the training and storage base; Wigram, where the Permanent Air Force began in 1923, closed in 1995. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all eight bases, at home and overseas, active and closed, is on the Royal New Zealand Air Force page.

Manawatū-Whanganui (Manawatū District, near Bulls)RNZAF Base OhakeaBuilt from 1937 for Wellington bombers that went to Britain instead, the home of New Zealand’s strike jets until the air combat force was disbanded there on 13 December 2001; today the RNZAF’s busiest base, with No. 5 Squadron’s P-8A Poseidons, the NH90 and A109 helicopters, T-6C pilot training and King Air 350s.Open the RNZAF Base Ohakea pageAucklandRNZAF Base Auckland (Whenuapai)Home of No. 40 Squadron since 1943 and Auckland’s international airport from 1945 to 1965, the base from which Hercules and Orions flew for almost six decades; today it holds the C-130J-30s and Boeing 757s, and the Navy’s Seasprites flown by No. 6 Squadron.Open the RNZAF Base Auckland (Whenuapai) page

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Papua New Guinea Defence Force Air Transport Wing bases

Papua New Guinea keeps every military aircraft at Jackson’s Field, Port Moresby’s international airport, named after an Australian squadron leader killed defending the town in 1942; the Air Transport Squadron spent years at Lae until 1992, according to Wikipedia. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all three airfields, active, closed and civil, is on the Papua New Guinea Defence Force Air Transport Wing page.

National Capital DistrictJackson’s Field (Port Moresby International Airport)The wartime Seven Mile Drome, renamed after Squadron Leader John Jackson of No. 75 Squadron RAAF, shot down and killed defending Port Moresby on 28 April 1942; today Port Moresby International Airport and the Air Transport Wing’s only base, where two aircraft left by the Sandline affair were still in storage in 2016 and a CN-235 idle since 2017 ran its engines again in September 2025.Open the Jackson’s Field (Port Moresby International Airport) page

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Egyptian Air Force bases

Egypt flies from former RAF stations such as Almaza, Cairo West and Abu Suweir and from bases built since, such as Berenice on the Red Sea, opened in January 2020; Cairo West has usually been the centre of US deployments for the Bright Star exercises. These are the pages published so far; the full list of all 11 bases is on the Egyptian Air Force page.

Giza GovernorateCairo WestA wartime RAF landing ground opened in 1942 as Kilo 26, struck in Israel’s opening attack on 5 June 1967 and the home of 222 Fighter Regiment’s F-4E Phantoms from the 1977 Peace Pharaoh deal until their retirement by 2018; since the first Bright Star exercise in 1980 it has usually been the centre of US deployments to Egypt.Open the Cairo West pageCairo GovernorateAlmazaWhere military aviation in Egypt began, with Africa’s first air meeting in February 1910 and the arrival of the air force’s first five Gipsy Moths from Hatfield on 2 June 1932; today a transport, helicopter and VIP base in Heliopolis, from which three military aircraft flew Arab League medical aid to Port Sudan in July 2023.Open the Almaza page

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Algerian Air Force bases

Algeria publishes no list of its air bases: English Wikipedia names Boufarik as the home of the transport fleet, Tafraoui is the air force academy, and Su-35s were photographed by satellite at Oum El Bouaghi in March 2025. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases is on the Algerian Air Force page.

Blida Province (wilaya of Blida)BoufarikA French military airfield until 1962, where English Wikipedia says de Gaulle landed from Gibraltar in 1943, and today, in English Wikipedia’s words, the home of the air force’s transport fleet; on 11 April 2018 an Il-76 crashed moments after take-off from here, killing all 257 aboard, the deadliest air crash on Algerian soil.Open the Boufarik pageOran Province (wilaya of Oran)TafraouiThe French navy’s Lartigue air station from 1940 to 1964 and the objective of the first American combat parachute operation on 8 November 1942, then a US Twelfth Air Force base; since 1977, according to French Wikipedia, the École supérieure de l’Air, where Algeria trains its pilots, engineers and technicians.Open the Tafraoui page

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Royal Moroccan Air Force bases

Morocco flies from bases the United States built in the 1950s, such as Ben Guerir and Sidi Slimane, and from fields inherited from France and Spain, such as Meknès and Laâyoune; it publishes no list of them, and the sources number them differently. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases is on the Royal Moroccan Air Force page.

Marrakech-SafiBen GuerirBuilt by the United States from 1951 for Strategic Air Command bombers and left in 1963, then NASA’s standby Space Shuttle abort landing site for 83 missions from 1988 to 2002; today a Royal Air Force base named in a 2021 report for the F-16 Block 72 and, by press accounts citing Defensa, home to Morocco’s TB2 and Akıncı drones.Open the Ben Guerir pageRabat-Salé-KénitraSidi SlimaneThe senior American bomber base in Morocco from 1951 to 1963, where Operation Reflex was rehearsed in 1957 and a B-47 carrying a nuclear bomb burned on the runway on 31 January 1958; today the Royal Air Force’s fifth base, where the US Air Force contracted two F-16 Block 72 simulators in August 2026, due by April 2029.Open the Sidi Slimane page

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Tunisian Air Force bases

Tunisia flies its F-5 fighters from Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed, a French military airfield until 1963, and trains its pilots at Sfax and Borj El Amri; El Aouina, the military side of Tunis-Carthage airport, is where its American surveillance aircraft were handed over. These are the pages published so far; the full list of all eight bases is on the Tunisian Air Force page.

Bizerte GovernorateBizerte-Sidi AhmedA German airfield raided in November 1942 by a B-17 crew that, according to English Wikipedia, later flew the Enola Gay, fought over in the Bizerte crisis of July 1961 and handed over by France on 15 October 1963; today the air force’s principal base, home of 15 Squadron’s F-5E/F Tiger IIs and 32 Squadron’s AB205 helicopters according to defenceWeb, and where the United States hands over its surplus Hercules.Open the Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed page

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Libyan Air Force bases

Libya’s air bases have changed hands repeatedly since 2014: Benina at Benghazi is the main base of the Libyan National Army, and Al-Watiya in the north-west, built for Gaddafi’s air force, has been held by forces of the Tripoli-based government since May 2020. These are the pages published so far; the full list of all 13 bases is on the Libyan Air Force page.

Nuqat al Khams DistrictAl-WatiyaA hardened Gaddafi-era base near the Tunisian border with 43 aircraft shelters and two 3,200-metre runways, taken by LNA-aligned forces on 9 August 2014 and for almost six years their only big air base in the west, then taken by Turkish-backed forces of the Tripoli-based government on 18 May 2020; unidentified jets struck the Turkish air-defence systems installed there in July 2020, and no unit is published for it today.Open the Al-Watiya pageBenghazi DistrictBeninaBuilt by the Italian air arm between the wars and an RAF station until March 1970, a target of the US raid of 15 April 1986, taken by rebels on 23 February 2011 and the anchor of Khalifa Haftar’s Operation Dignity from May 2014; today the main air base of the Libyan National Army, shared with Benina International Airport.Open the Benina page

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Sudanese Air Force bases

Sudan’s air force has flown from Khartoum and from Wadi Seidna, north of Omdurman, for most of its life; the war with the RSF since 2023 has cost it El Fasher and Nyala and brought drone attacks on Wadi Seidna and Port Sudan. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and lost, is on the Sudanese Air Force page.

Khartoum StateWadi SeidnaA Second World War ferry field where the USAAF’s 46th Ferrying Squadron was activated on 2 December 1942, then one of the air force’s two main bases and its long-established training centre; in April 2023 Western governments evacuated their nationals through it, and since 2024 it has been a target of RSF drones, one of which destroyed the air force’s last C-130H on 21 March 2024.Open the Wadi Seidna page

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South Sudan Air Force bases

South Sudan flies from Juba International Airport, where its first Mi-17s arrived in December 2010 and which it shares with airliners and the UN mission; Malakal, Paloich and Bor are airstrips named in reports of its gunships. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 airfields is on the South Sudan Air Force page.

Central EquatoriaJuba International AirportCleared as an airfield in 1929 and today South Sudan’s main gateway, where the air force’s first ten Mi-17s were delivered in December 2010 and January 2011 and where the UN Panel of Experts reported helicopters being serviced, a Diamond 42 reconnaissance aircraft and two helicopter hangars contracted for US$16.4 million; its single 3,100 m runway is shared with airliners and the UN mission.Open the Juba International Airport page

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Ethiopian Air Force bases

Ethiopia has flown from Harar Meda at Bishoftu since 1946, and Dire Dawa was already its second air base when Somali tanks reached the runway in 1977; defenceWeb names Bahir Dar as a drone base. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the Ethiopian Air Force page.

Oromia Region (Bishoftu, formerly Debre Zeyit)Harar MedaThe Ethiopian Air Force’s main base and headquarters since 1946, when the air arm moved from Lideta in Addis Ababa and a Swedish mission under Carl Gustaf von Rosen built its flying school; taken over by EPRDF forces in May 1991, it hosts the anniversary air shows and, according to defenceWeb, part of the TB2 drone fleet.Open the Harar Meda pageDire Dawa (chartered city)Dire DawaEthiopia’s second air base, where Somali tanks reached the airfield on 17 August 1977 and destroyed nine or ten aircraft before the attack collapsed; later home to the 3rd Air Regiment’s MiG-21s and, in 2006–2007, to American AC-130 gunships, it shares its runway with Dire Dawa International Airport, and its current units are not published.Open the Dire Dawa page

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Eritrean Air Force bases

Eritrea flies from Asmara, an Italian military airfield of 1922 and the air force headquarters, and Wikipedia lists Assab, Massawa and Sawa as its other airfields; Assab hosted an Emirati base for the Yemen war from 2015. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Eritrean Air Force page.

Central Region (Maekel)AsmaraBuilt by Italy in 1922 as a military airfield and a staging base for the 1935–36 invasion of Ethiopia, today the headquarters and main base of the Eritrean Air Force; Ethiopian jets struck it on 5 June 1998 and again in 2000, 250 cadets graduated here in May 2019, and Somali troops were training at the headquarters in July 2024.Open the Asmara page

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Somali Air Force bases

Somali military flying has centred on Mogadishu since the colonial era, with the Soviet-built jet base at Baledogle about 90 kilometres to the north-west; both are in military use again, and a new airfield is under construction at Wargaadhi. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 bases, active and former, is on the Somali Air Force page.

Banaadir (Mogadishu)Aden Adde International Airport (Mogadishu)Opened in 1928 as Aeroporto di Mogadiscio-Petrella, according to Wikipedia, and home of the old air force’s airlift wing and academy until 1991, it is the runway where GSG 9 stormed the hijacked Landshut on 18 October 1977; run by the Turkish firm Favori since 2013, it is again the hub of Somali military flying, and the new T129s were test-flown at the Turkish base in the capital in June 2025.Open the Aden Adde International Airport (Mogadishu) page

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Kenya Air Force bases

Kenya flies its F-5s and trainers from Laikipia, near Nanyuki, and keeps its headquarters at Moi Air Base, the former RAF Eastleigh in Nairobi, with forward operating bases towards the Somali border. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all eight airfields is on the Kenya Air Force page.

Laikipia CountyLaikipiaAn RAF station, RAF Nanyuki, by 1942 and opened as Kenya’s fighter base on 25 February 1974, home to every Kenyan fighter since, from the Hunter to the F-5; on 1 August 1982 rebels forced pilots to take off to bomb Nairobi, and today it also hosts the Training Squadron, the Aviation Centre of Excellence and the headquarters of the British Army Training Unit Kenya.Open the Laikipia pageNairobi CountyMoiThe former RAF Eastleigh, the RAF’s main base in East Africa and Nairobi’s main airport from 1945 to 1958; air force rebels seized it at 3 a.m. on 1 August 1982, after which it was renamed after President Moi, and it is today the Kenya Air Force headquarters and a transport base.Open the Moi page

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Uganda People’s Defence Forces Air Force bases

Uganda flies from Entebbe, its headquarters since the air force was founded there in 1964, from Nakasongola, home of the Air Force College, and from Gulu and Soroti, which share their runways with civil flying. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all five bases, four at home and the deployment at Mogadishu, is on the Uganda People’s Defence Forces Air Force page.

Wakiso District, Central RegionEntebbeThe lakeside airfield where the Uganda Army Air Force was founded with Israeli help in 1964, where Israeli commandos freed the hostages of Air France Flight 139 and destroyed 11 MiGs on the night of 3–4 July 1976, and which Tanzanian troops captured on 7 April 1979; today the air force headquarters, on the old airport side of Entebbe International Airport.Open the Entebbe page

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Rwandan Air Force bases

Rwanda publishes no air force basing; the only airfield with a documented military role is Kigali International Airport at Kanombe, where military helicopters use two pads beside the civil runway and where the presidential aircraft was shot down in 1994. These are the pages published so far; the full map is on the Rwandan Air Force page.

City of Kigali (Kanombe, eastern Kigali)Kigali International Airport (Kanombe)The oldest airfield in Rwanda on the public record, where the first aircraft landed in 1934, and the place where the presidential Falcon 50 was shot down on 6 April 1994, the crash the UN calls the trigger of the genocide against the Tutsi; today military helicopters use two pads on the south side of its 3,500 m runway, beside Kanombe military camp.Open the Kigali International Airport (Kanombe) page

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Nigerian Air Force bases

Nigeria flies its fighters from Makurdi, home of Tactical Air Command, trains its pilots at Kaduna and Kano and fights its insurgencies from bases such as Maiduguri and Gusau. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 14 bases is on the Nigerian Air Force page.

Benue StateNAF Base MakurdiHome of Tactical Air Command and Nigeria’s front-line jet base for four decades: the 18 Jaguars flew from here from 1984 until they were withdrawn in 1991 to save money, the three JF-17 Thunders were inducted here on 20 May 2021, and Mi-35M and T129 attack helicopters have been delivered and handed over here.Open the NAF Base Makurdi pageKaduna StateNAF Base KadunaThe air force’s training centre at Kawo, on the site Wikipedia calls Old Kaduna Airport: headquarters of Air Training Command, home of 401 Flying Training School, which received its first Super Mushshak trainers in 2017, and of the Air Force Institute of Technology, founded in 1977, and the base where Tolulope Arotile, the first female combat helicopter pilot, died in an accident in 2020.Open the NAF Base Kaduna page

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Ghana Air Force bases

Ghana flies from Accra, its main base beside the headquarters at Burma Camp, from Takoradi, its training base and first station since 1961, and from Tamale in the north. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all four bases, with the planned base at Jogboi and the former gliding school at Afienya, is on the Ghana Air Force page.

Greater Accra RegionAir Force Base AccraThe military side of Ghana’s main airport, a Second World War RAF station and from October 1941 the African hub of Pan American Airways-Africa, which became a Ghana Air Force station in 1961 and is today the base of its transport and helicopter squadrons, where the first H175 landed on 5 March 2026 and from which the Z-9 that crashed with two ministers on board took off on 6 August 2025.Open the Air Force Base Accra pageWestern RegionAir Force Base TakoradiWhere the RAF assembled Hurricanes, Blenheims and Spitfires from July 1940 and flew them across Africa to Egypt, the Ghana Air Force’s first station from 1 March 1961, where Jerry Rawlings learned to fly, and today the home of Air Force Training Command, the recruit school and the flying school; all three crew of the Z-9 lost on 6 August 2025 were posted here.Open the Air Force Base Takoradi page

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Senegalese Air Force bases

Senegal flies from Ouakam, its headquarters on the military side of Dakar’s old airport and a French air base from 1920 until July 2025, and trains its pilots at Thiès, the oldest air base in French West Africa by APS’s account. These are the pages published so far; the full map of both air bases and the former French terminal at Diass is on the Senegalese Air Force page.

Thiès RegionThièsCreated in 1911 as the first air base in French West Africa, according to APS, and taken over by the Senegalese air force around 1965, it has been home since 2 May 1984 to the Air Force School, which flies ex-French TB 30 Epsilons and Schweizer helicopters, trains foreign students and, since 2022, pilots and technicians for Air Sénégal.Open the Thiès page

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Air Force of Ivory Coast bases

Ivory Coast flies from three airfields it shares with civil airports — Abidjan, home of the headquarters and transport group, Bouaké and Korhogo — and Yamoussoukro was the Su-25 base of 2004. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases, active and former, is on the Air Force of Ivory Coast page.

Abidjan Autonomous District (Port-Bouët commune)Abidjan (Port-Bouët)The military side of Félix Houphouët-Boigny International Airport and the air force’s headquarters, home of the transport group’s An-26Bs and Mi-8Ps; French and Ivorian forces fought for the airport after the Bouaké strike of November 2004, and the French camp beside it, there since 1979, was handed back in February 2025.Open the Abidjan (Port-Bouët) page

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Malian Air Force bases

Mali’s air force is centred on Air Base 101 at Sénou, beside Bamako’s international airport, with numbered bases from Kayes in the west to Gao in the north-east; Tessalit and the Kidal detachment have been out of government hands since April 2026. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases and detachments is on the Malian Air Force page.

Bamako DistrictAir Base 101 Sénou (Bamako)The military side of Modibo Keita International Airport and the air force’s main operating base, where a Su-25, L-39s, a Mi-24P, a Mi-8 and a C295 were commissioned on 9 August 2022; JNIM videos of the raid of 17 September 2024 showed two C295s destroyed, and Russia’s Africa Corps said it defended the airport on 25 April 2026.Open the Air Base 101 Sénou (Bamako) page

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Burkina Faso Air Force bases

Burkina Faso’s air force flies from two airfields it shares with civil airports, Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, as it did in the Agacher war of 1985; its drones were reported in 2024 at a separate base south of the capital. These are the pages published so far; the full map of both bases is on the Burkina Faso Air Force page.

Kadiogo Province, OuagadougouOuagadougou (Base Aérienne 511)The military side of Thomas Sankara International Airport and the air force’s home since 1964, where its MiG-17s ended their days on the apron; today Base Aérienne 511 is published as home to the C295W of Escadron de Transport 511 and the three A-29B Super Tucanos of the Escadrille de Chasse.Open the Ouagadougou (Base Aérienne 511) page

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Niger Air Force bases

Niger flies from Air Base 101 beside Niamey’s Diori Hamani airport and from numbered bases at Agadez, Tahoua and Diffa; Air Base 201 at Agadez was built up by the United States as a drone base and returned to Niger in 2024. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all four bases is on the Niger Air Force page.

Agadez RegionAir Base 201 AgadezA Nigerien air base on the edge of Agadez’s Mano Dayak airport that the United States rebuilt for about US$100 million and flew MQ-9 Reapers from between November 2019 and its withdrawal on 5 August 2024; back under Niger’s air force, it has been commanded by Colonel Ali Boubacar since 17 September 2026, and which Nigerien aircraft use it has not been published.Open the Air Base 201 Agadez page

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Mauritania Islamic Air Force bases

Mauritania’s air force began at the old Nouakchott airport in 1960 and today has a documented flying role only at Atar, home of its Tucanos and Air Force School; French Wikipedia adds Nouadhibou as a third base. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 airfields is on the Mauritania Islamic Air Force page.

Adrar RegionAtarThe airfield of the Adrar plateau, a US Army Air Forces staging post between Dakar and Agadir in the Second World War, and since 2011 the base of the ex-French Tucanos flown against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and, from 2012, of the Air Force School, according to English Wikipedia; its 3,000 m runway is shared with civil traffic.Open the Atar page

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Cameroon Air Force bases

Cameroon’s air force flies from three main bases named by Military Africa — Yaoundé, Douala and Garoua — and uses Bamenda and Maroua-Salak as forward airfields for the Anglophone conflict and the Far North. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 airfields is on the Cameroon Air Force page.

North RegionGaroua (Base Aérienne 301)Base Aérienne 301, the air force’s northern base on the 3,401 m runway of Garoua International Airport, which from October 2015 to about late 2019 also hosted Contingency Location Garoua, the American drone outpost that flew surveillance against Boko Haram; no source checked says which Cameroonian aircraft are based here.Open the Garoua (Base Aérienne 301) page

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South African Air Force bases

South Africa flies its Gripens and Hawks from Makhado, its transports and VIP jets from Waterkloof near Pretoria and its Rooivalks from Bloemspruit; Swartkop, acquired in 1921, was its first air base. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases, active and closed, is on the South African Air Force page.

Gauteng (City of Tshwane, south of Pretoria)Air Force Base WaterkloofOpened on 1 August 1938 as a grass forced-landing field for Swartkop and rebuilt for jets from 1952, the busiest SAAF base according to the unofficial SAAF website: home of 21 Squadron’s presidential Boeing BBJ “Inkwazi”, 28 Squadron’s C-130BZ Hercules and the Africa Aerospace and Defence show, and scene of the 2013 Gupta wedding landing.Open the Air Force Base Waterkloof pageLimpopoAir Force Base MakhadoOpened on 14 October 1987 as AFB Louis Trichardt and renamed on 7 November 2003, the SAAF’s most northern base and what defenceWeb calls its “fighter town”: 2 Squadron, the Flying Cheetahs, has flown from here since January 1993, with Cheetahs until 2008 and now Gripens, beside the Hawks of 85 Combat Flying School.Open the Air Force Base Makhado pageGauteng (Valhalla, Centurion, City of Tshwane)Air Force Base Swartkop (Air Force Mobile Deployment Wing)South Africa’s first air force base, acquired as the farm Zwartkop in April 1921, where the Imperial Gift hangars now house the SAAF Museum; since 2023 it has been MDW Central of the Air Force Mobile Deployment Wing, with 17 Squadron’s helicopters and the museum’s annual air show.Open the Air Force Base Swartkop (Air Force Mobile Deployment Wing) page

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National Air Force of Angola bases

Angola flies its Su-30Ks from Kuito, according to defenceWeb, its transports from Luanda and its jet trainers from Catumbela; Menongue was the forward MiG-23 base of the Cuito Cuanavale campaign. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 airfields, active and historic, is on the National Air Force of Angola page.

Cubango Province (Cuando Cubango until 2024)MenongueBuilt by the Portuguese Air Force in 1973 as an auxiliary base for the colonial war, the airfield from which MiG-23s supported FAPLA’s 1987 offensive towards Mavinga and to which the Cubans withdrew their aircraft when South African shelling closed the Cuito Cuanavale strip; reopened as Aeroporto Comandante Kwenha in 2014, it is home to the 24th Training Regiment according to Wikipedia.Open the Menongue page

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Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo bases

The Congolese air force has its headquarters at Ndolo in Kinshasa and its flying and technical schools at Kamina, Belgium’s great colonial base in Katanga; Goma airport has been under AFC/M23 control since 28 January 2025, and the M23 claimed Kavumu on 14 February 2025. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 airfields is on the Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo page.

Haut-Lomami ProvinceKaminaBuilt by Belgium from 1952, with NATO funding according to English Wikipedia, as a colonial air and paratroop base in Katanga, it was the UN’s main base during the Katanga secession and the starting point of the US C-130s of Operation Dragon Rouge in 1964; French Wikipedia places the air force’s flying and technical schools and the 2nd Tactical Air Group here, but how much flying it now sees is not published.Open the Kamina page

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Air Force of Zimbabwe bases

Zimbabwe flies its jets from Josiah Tungamirai Air Force Base at Gweru, the former Thornhill, and its transports and helicopters from Manyame, the former New Sarum, on the military side of Harare’s international airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all five bases is on the Air Force of Zimbabwe page.

Midlands Province, near GweruJosiah Tungamirai Air Force Base (Thornhill), GweruA Rhodesian Air Training Group station from March 1942 and a jet base from 1957, where saboteurs damaged four new Hawks, nine Hunters and a Lynx on 25 July 1982; renamed Josiah Tungamirai Air Force Base in 2017, it is home to the F-7s of No. 5 Squadron and the K-8 and SF.260 training squadrons.Open the Josiah Tungamirai Air Force Base (Thornhill), Gweru pageHarare, beside Robert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportManyame Air Force Base (New Sarum), HarareOpened as New Sarum on 1 April 1952 and the air headquarters from that October, the base of the Rhodesian Dakotas, Canberras and Fireforce helicopters, renamed Manyame in 1983; it shares its runway with Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport and houses the transport and helicopter squadrons.Open the Manyame Air Force Base (New Sarum), Harare page

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Air Arm Command (Botswana) bases

Botswana flies almost all its aircraft from one base, Thebephatshwa near Molepolole, with its VIP Flight at Gaborone’s airport and two squadrons at Francistown. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all three bases is on the Air Arm Command page.

Kweneng District, near MolepololeThebephatshwaBuilt by mostly foreign contractors between 1992 and 1996 in the multi-stage “Eagle” project, with aircraft shelters and ordnance storage, Botswana’s only full air base is home to six of the air arm’s eight squadrons, among them Z28 with the CF-5s and Z10, down to a single Hercules until the United States donated another in 2024.Open the Thebephatshwa page

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Namibian Air Force bases

Namibia flies from Grootfontein, a former South African Air Force base where its air force was commissioned in 2005, and from Karibib, its headquarters since about 2016. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all three airfields, with Windhoek’s Eros, is on the Namibian Air Force page.

Otjozondjupa RegionGrootfontein Air Force BaseA former South African Air Force base where the Namibian Air Force was commissioned on 13 March 2005 and kept its headquarters until about 2016; its helicopters flew from here to rescue more than 600 people from Zimbabwe’s floods in 2014, and the first Y-9 transports ever exported were handed over here on 16 December 2024.Open the Grootfontein Air Force Base page

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Brazilian Air Force bases

Brazil flies its Gripens from Anápolis, its F-5Ms from Santa Cruz and Canoas and its Super Tucanos from bases on the Amazon and western borders, and trains every pilot at Pirassununga and Natal. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 16 bases is on the Brazilian Air Force page.

GoiásAnápolis Air Force BaseBuilt from 1970 to defend the new capital and operational on 23 August 1972 as Brazil’s first base designed for supersonic aircraft, it flew Mirage IIIs for more than three decades, received the first KC-390 on 4 September 2019 and is now the only Gripen base, where the 1st Air Defence Group began air defence alert for Brasília on 24 February 2026.Open the Anápolis Air Force Base pageRio de JaneiroSanta Cruz Air Force BaseOpened in 1936 as the airship port of the Zeppelin service to Brazil, whose giant hangar still houses aircraft, and home since 1945 of the 1st Fighter Group of the Italian campaign; its F-5Es intercepted a diverted RAF Vulcan during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas war, and it flies F-5Ms, P-3AM Orions and H-36 Caracals today.Open the Santa Cruz Air Force Base pageRio Grande do Norte (Parnamirim)Natal Air Force BaseParnamirim Field of the Second World War, through which about 19,000 large Allied aircraft passed on their way to Africa and Europe according to Poder Aéreo, and today the base where new combat pilots specialise on the A-29, C-95 and H-50 and the host of six of the eight CRUZEX exercises, among them the Gripen E’s multinational debut in 2024.Open the Natal Air Force Base pageSão PauloBrazilian Air Force Academy, PirassunungaThe Air Force Academy, where every Brazilian Air Force pilot learns to fly on the T-25 and the T-27 Tucano; the school moved here from Campo dos Afonsos in 1971, and it is home to the Smoke Squadron, which has flown the A-29 Super Tucano since 2012 and had given more than 4,000 displays by 2024.Open the Brazilian Air Force Academy, Pirassununga page

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Brazilian Naval Aviation bases

Every squadron of the Força Aeronaval flies from São Pedro da Aldeia, Brazil’s only naval jet base, while the stations of the first naval air arm at Ponta do Galeão and Florianópolis passed to the air force in 1941. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 bases, active and closed, is on the Brazilian Naval Aviation page.

Rio de JaneiroSão Pedro da Aldeia NavalThe home of Brazilian naval aviation since the air training centre moved here on 23 November 1961, on the Araruama lagoon east of Rio de Janeiro: every squadron of the Força Aeronaval flies from its 2,402-metre runway, among them the AF-1 Skyhawks of VF-1, Brazil’s only naval jets, and in 1963 the base was at the centre of the bitter dispute with the air force over who would fly from the carrier Minas Gerais.Open the São Pedro da Aldeia Naval page

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Brazilian Army Aviation bases

Brazilian Army Aviation flies from its own aerodrome at Taubaté and from Brazilian Air Force bases at Campo Grande and Manaus. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases is on the Brazilian Army Aviation page.

São PauloTaubaté Army Aviation BaseThe army-run aerodrome in São Paulo state that has been the home of Brazilian Army Aviation since 1991, with the Aviation Command, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the training centre and about three-quarters of the arm’s people, and where the first of 12 new UH-60M Black Hawks was presented on 15 December 2025.Open the Taubaté Army Aviation Base page

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Argentine Air Force bases

Argentina’s F-16s fly from Río Cuarto until their home at Tandil is ready, its Hercules from El Palomar, where military flying began in 1912, and its Antarctic flights land at Marambio. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 16 bases, including the 1982 forward bases, is on the Argentine Air Force page.

Buenos Aires ProvinceTandil (VI Air Brigade)Base of the VI Air Brigade, whose aircraft have included the Gloster Meteor, the Mirage IIIEA and the Daggers of Grupo 6 de Caza, which flew from San Julián and Río Grande in the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas); left with Pampa trainers when the Mirages retired in 2015, it is being rebuilt as the home of the 24 ex-Danish F-16s, whose maintenance school opened here on 11 March 2026.Open the Tandil (VI Air Brigade) pageMarambio (Seymour) Island, Antarctic Peninsula (within the sector Argentina claims; claims are held in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty)Marambio BaseThe Air Force’s runway to Antarctica on Marambio (Seymour) Island, levelled by Air Force crews in 1969 and opened on 29 October that year when a Fokker F27 landed on wheels; C-130s have supplied it since 11 April 1970 and the Saab 340 since March 2024, in the sector Argentina claims, where claims are held in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty.Open the Marambio Base pageBuenos Aires Province (Greater Buenos Aires)El Palomar (I Air Brigade)The birthplace of Argentine military aviation, where the Military Aviation School was created by decree on 10 August 1912, and today the I Air Brigade’s Hercules base; its C-130s opened the 1982 air bridge to the islands Britain calls the Falkland Islands and Argentina the Islas Malvinas, and one of them, TC-63, was shot down north of San Carlos on 1 June 1982 with its crew of seven.Open the El Palomar (I Air Brigade) page

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Argentine Naval Aviation bases

Comandante Espora near Bahía Blanca is the main base and headquarters, Punta Indio has the school, Almirante Zar at Trelew the Orions according to Wikipedia, and Río Grande was the Exocet base of 1982. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, including the 1982 forward airfields, is on the Argentine Naval Aviation page.

Buenos Aires Province (Bahía Blanca)Comandante Espora NavalThe main base and headquarters of Argentine Naval Aviation since 16 June 1939, near Bahía Blanca, and home of the Second Naval Fighter and Attack Squadron, whose Super Étendards flew the Exocet attacks of 1982 on HMS Sheffield and the Atlantic Conveyor from Río Grande; the Navy’s last S-2T Tracker was retired here on 2 December 2025, and its Sea Kings still fly to Antarctica every summer.Open the Comandante Espora Naval page

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Argentine Army Aviation bases

Argentine Army Aviation flies from its home at Campo de Mayo, north-west of Buenos Aires, and from aviation sections in the provinces. These are the pages published so far; the full map is on the Argentine Army Aviation page.

Buenos Aires (San Miguel)Campo de Mayo MilitaryThe army’s great garrison in San Miguel, north-west of Buenos Aires, home of Argentine Army Aviation since 1956, of Army Aviation Group 601 and of the school that trains helicopter pilots for all three services, and the place from which, a federal court found in 2022, death flights left in 1976–1977.Open the Campo de Mayo Military page

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Chilean Air Force bases

Chile flies its F-16s from Iquique and Antofagasta and its last F-5s from Punta Arenas, where the air bridge to Antarctica begins. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the Chilean Air Force page.

Tarapacá Region (Región de Tarapacá)Los CóndoresThe I Air Brigade’s base on the Atacama coast south of Iquique, sharing a 3,350 m runway with Diego Aracena International Airport, where Grupo 3 flies the ten F-16C/D Block 50s Chile bought new and Grupo 1, formed in 1926 and here since 3 March 1975, trains the future fighter pilots on 22 A-29B Super Tucanos.Open the Los Cóndores pageAntofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta)Cerro MorenoThe V Air Brigade’s base at Antofagasta, where the first F-5Es landed on 25 July 1976 and Grupos 7 and 8 now fly the 36 ex-Dutch F-16AM/BM MLUs; it hosts Salitre, the FACh’s multinational air exercise, which brought six air forces here from 29 June to 12 July 2026.Open the Cerro Moreno pageMagallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena)ChabuncoThe air force side of Punta Arenas airport on the Strait of Magellan, home of the IV Air Brigade, Grupo 12’s F-5E/F Tigre IIIs since 2010 and the Twin Otters of Grupo 6, and the start of the air bridge to Antarctica; Hercules 990 left here on 9 December 2019 with 38 aboard and was lost over the Drake Passage.Open the Chabunco page

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Chilean Naval Aviation bases

Chilean Naval Aviation flies from its own base at Concón, which replaced El Belloto in 1987–1991 and is now being opened to airlines as Viña del Mar Airport, and from air force and civil airfields along the coast. These are the pages published so far; the full map of its bases, active and closed, is on the Chilean Naval Aviation page.

Valparaíso Region (Región de Valparaíso)Concón Naval (Viña del Mar Airport)The Chilean Navy’s main air base since its runway opened on the Torquemada heights on 19 December 1987, home of the P-3 Orions and C295s of squadron VP-1 and the next home of the CP-140M Aurora; since 2024 it has been named Viña del Mar Airport, and a US$43.6 million commercial airport is being built on the Navy’s land.Open the Concón Naval (Viña del Mar Airport) page

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Peruvian Air Force bases

Peru flies its Mirage 2000s from La Joya in the desert west of Arequipa and its Su-25s from El Pato at Talara, home of Grupo Aéreo No. 11 for more than 70 years; most transports and helicopters fly from Callao, on the Lima airport site. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases is on the Peruvian Air Force page.

Arequipa RegionLa JoyaPeru’s Mirage 2000 base since the first four arrived in 1986, where Escuadrón Aéreo 412 “Halcones” of Grupo Aéreo No. 4 carries the air defence mission, a staging post for the Mirages Peru sent to Argentina in 1982 according to Zona Militar, and the planned home of the F-16 Block 70s chosen in April 2026.Open the La Joya pagePiura RegionEl Pato (Talara)Home of Grupo Aéreo No. 11 for more than 70 years according to Zona Militar, Peru’s first jet fighter base with 26 F-86F Sabres from 1955 and then the base of Su-22s and Su-25s, which trained with US A-10Cs in 2023; since 2024 El Pato has been the proposed site of a space launch centre.Open the El Pato (Talara) page

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Colombian Aerospace Force bases

Colombia flies its Kfirs from Palanquero in the middle of the country, where its Gripens are to be based, its Super Tucanos from Apiay on the eastern plains and its transports from CATAM at Bogotá’s El Dorado airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases is on the Colombian Aerospace Force page.

Cundinamarca (Puerto Salgar)Palanquero (Captain Germán Olano Moreno)Chosen during the Leticia crisis because it lies in the middle of the country and inaugurated on 27 August 1933, Colombia’s fighter base since the Sabres of 1956 and home of the Kfirs of Escuadrón de Combate 111, first among the installations opened to US forces by the 2009 agreement and the future Gripen base, with US$91 million of works due by November 2028.Open the Palanquero (Captain Germán Olano Moreno) pageMeta (Villavicencio)Apiay (Captain Luis F. Gómez Niño)Created in 1947 to reach the eastern plains during La Violencia and headquarters of Combat Air Command No. 2 since 1972, today the home of the Super Tucano, whose Escuadrón de Combate 211 ‘Grifos’ flies the A-29B and which Wikipedia credits with Operation Armagedón against the FARC’s 27th Front.Open the Apiay (Captain Luis F. Gómez Niño) pageBogotá, Capital DistrictCATAM, Bogotá (Brigadier General Camilo Daza)The air force’s airlift base on the military side of Bogotá’s El Dorado airport, 2,548 m above sea level: a transport base since 1959, home of the Hercules since 1968, of the KC-767 tanker Júpiter and of the presidential fleet; Spanish Wikipedia places at CATAM the Hercules fleet of the C-130H lost at Puerto Leguízamo on 23 March 2026.Open the CATAM, Bogotá (Brigadier General Camilo Daza) page

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Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela bases

Venezuela flies its F-16s and heavy transports from El Libertador, in the Aragua valley where military flying began in 1920, and its Su-30s from Barcelona; the headquarters is at La Carlota in Caracas, among the targets struck on 3 January 2026. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 11 bases, active and closed, is on the Bolivarian Military Aviation page.

Aragua (Palo Negro, near Maracay)El LibertadorOpened by Marcos Pérez Jiménez on 9 December 1955 and the FAV’s main jet base, home since 31 August 1983 of Grupo Aéreo de Caza 16, Latin America’s first F-16 unit, seized by rebel officers in November 1992 and today also the base of the Y-8s and C-130s of Grupo Aéreo de Transporte 6.Open the El Libertador pageMiranda (eastern Caracas)Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda (La Carlota)An air base in the middle of Caracas and the air arm’s headquarters since 5 December 1970, from which Pérez Jiménez flew into exile in 1958, bombed by rebel aircraft in November 1992 and listed by English Wikipedia among the installations hit in the US operation of 3 January 2026, of which no official damage account has been published.Open the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda (La Carlota) page

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Ecuadorian Air Force bases

Ecuador’s Super Tucanos fly from Manta, the only combat wing left, while Taura, the base of the Jaguars, Mirages, Kfirs and Cheetahs, has had no fighters since the Cheetah was grounded. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases is on the Ecuadorian Air Force page.

Guayas province, canton of YaguachiTauraBuilt from 28 August 1955 on flat land about 24 km east of Guayaquil, the base of Ala de Combate 21 and of every Ecuadorian supersonic type — Jaguar, Mirage F1, Kfir and Cheetah — whose pilots made the claims of 10 February 1995 that Ecuador calls Latin America’s first air combat victory and Peru partly disputes; it has had no fighters since the Cheetahs were grounded, and US Marines were reported doing recovery work there in September 2026.Open the Taura pageManabí provinceManta (Eloy Alfaro)Opened on 24 October 1978 as a joint civil and military airfield on the central Pacific coast, the base of Ala de Combate 23, whose 17 A-29 Super Tucanos are Ecuador’s only combat aircraft; from 1999 until 17 July 2009 it was the US counter-drug Forward Operating Location in the eastern Pacific, and in September 2026 it hosted the Peruvian Air Force, the enemy of 1995, for a joint exercise.Open the Manta (Eloy Alfaro) page

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Bolivian Air Force bases

Bolivian military flying began at El Alto, on the Altiplano above La Paz, where the I Air Brigade now shares the country’s main international airport; five more brigades are at Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Tarija, Trinidad and Cobija. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases is on the Bolivian Air Force page.

La Paz DepartmentEl AltoNear here the American Donald Hudson made the first official flight in Bolivia on 17 April 1920, and here President Bautista Saavedra founded the Escuela Militar de Aviación on 12 October 1923, the air force’s birthday; at about 4,061 metres, the airport opened in 1965 was the world’s highest until 1994, and the I Air Brigade shares it with airline traffic — the scene of the air force’s worst modern accident, when a C-130H ran off the runway into a city avenue on 27 February 2026.Open the El Alto page

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Paraguayan Air Force bases

Paraguay flies almost all its military aircraft from Ñu Guasu at Luque, which shares a runway with Asunción’s international airport, and uses Mariscal Estigarribia, with the country’s longest runway, in the Chaco. These are the pages published so far; the full map of both bases is on the Paraguayan Air Force page.

Central Department (Departamento Central)Ñu GuasuThe military side of Asunción’s airfield at Luque, first inaugurated in 1938: Paraguay’s first jets, AT-26 Xavantes, landed here in December 1979, the airport beside it carried Stroessner’s name from 1980 until his fall, and today it is the air force headquarters and 1st Air Brigade, where the first four A-29 Super Tucanos arrived on 30 June 2025.Open the Ñu Guasu page

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Uruguayan Air Force bases

Uruguay flies its combat aircraft from Durazno, in the middle of the country, and its transports and helicopters from Carrasco, beside Montevideo’s international airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all four bases is on the Uruguayan Air Force page.

Durazno DepartmentDurazno (Santa Bernardina)Inaugurated on 14 April 1977 as the bad-weather alternate for Montevideo, the home of Air Brigade II and Uruguay’s combat base, where the first two A-29 Super Tucanos landed on 18 February 2026 and the A-37B Dragonfly, the air force’s last jet, was retired on 13 May 2026 after almost 50 years.Open the Durazno (Santa Bernardina) page

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Mexican Air Force bases

Mexico flies from Santa Lucía, its main base since 1952 and now shared with Felipe Ángeles International Airport, and from bases on civil airports across the country, from Hermosillo to Cozumel; the newest, BAM 20 at Tulum, opened on 10 February 2025. These are the pages published so far; the map of 11 of its 20 air bases is on the Mexican Air Force page.

State of Mexico (Estado de México), ZumpangoSanta Lucía Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 1)Built to move military flying out of Balbuena and inaugurated on 24 November 1952, the air force’s main base and, according to Infodefensa, home since 10 August 1982 of the F-5E/F Tiger IIs of Escuadrón Aéreo 401, nine left and three operational in 2025; since 21 March 2022 it has shared the site with Felipe Ángeles International Airport, which SEDENA operates.Open the Santa Lucía Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 1) pageQuintana RooCozumel Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 4)On Cozumel International Airport, an airfield begun as a wartime stopover for the United States but used by 1944 only for emergencies and by the Mexican military; English Wikipedia places Escuadrón Aéreo 201 here, carrying the number of the squadron that fought in the Philippines in 1945 and now flying T-6C+ Texan II trainers.Open the Cozumel Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 4) page

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Mexican Naval Aviation bases

Mexican naval aviation flies from both coasts, and its oldest and largest base, Las Bajadas at Veracruz, has trained naval airmen since 1943. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Mexican Naval Aviation page.

VeracruzLas Bajadas Naval (Veracruz)The cradle of Mexican naval aviation, where the Naval Aviation School opened in 1943 with ex-air force aircraft that also patrolled the Gulf for U-boats; a naval air station since 1974, it shares Veracruz International Airport’s 2,400-metre runway and was home to the Navy’s E-2C Hawkeyes from 2004.Open the Las Bajadas Naval (Veracruz) page

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Guatemalan Air Force bases

Guatemalan military flying has centred on La Aurora since 1923, with the Northern Air Command in Petén and the Southern at Retalhuleu since 2003. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Guatemalan Air Force page.

Guatemala DepartmentLa AuroraThe home of Guatemalan military flying since the aviation school moved to the La Aurora farm in 1921 and flying began in 1923, it got its first paved runway in 1942 as part of a US military base and today shares a 2,987-metre runway between Guatemala’s main international airport and the air force headquarters and Central Air Command.Open the La Aurora page

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Honduran Air Force bases

The Honduran Air Force flies from four main bases, from Toncontín in the capital to the F-5 base at La Ceiba, and shares Soto Cano with US Joint Task Force-Bravo. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the Honduran Air Force page.

Comayagua DepartmentSoto CanoPalmerola, near Comayagua, home of the Air Force Academy and since the 1980s of US Joint Task Force-Bravo, which English Wikipedia describes as the largest US military presence in Central America, there under a handshake agreement; its origins are dated to 1940, 1981 or 1984–1985 by different Wikipedia articles, and since October 2021 it has also been Palmerola International Airport.Open the Soto Cano page

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Salvadoran Air Force bases

The Salvadoran Air Force flies from two brigades, the First at Ilopango in the capital and the Second at Comalapa beside the international airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 2 bases is on the Salvadoran Air Force page.

San Salvador DepartmentIlopangoThe air force’s home for most of its history and the capital’s international airport until 1980, it was bombed by Honduran Corsairs on 15 July 1969 and raided by FMLN commandos on the night of 26–27 January 1982, who destroyed or damaged much of the fleet on its ramp; the First Air Brigade since 4 March 1994, it also houses the National Aviation Museum in the old terminal.Open the Ilopango page

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Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force bases

Cuba’s fighters, none in day-to-day use by FlightGlobal’s 2026 count, are at San Antonio de los Baños, a US wartime base of 1942, by English Wikipedia’s account, and its helicopters at Santa Clara; Ciudad Libertad in Havana, bombed before the Bay of Pigs landing, is now a school. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force page.

Artemisa Province (until 2011 Havana Province)San Antonio de los BañosBuilt by the United States in 1942 for anti-submarine patrols and B-29 crew training, struck by exile B-26s on 15 April 1961 and the place where Cuba’s first Soviet MiGs were assembled that June; headquarters of the Cuban air force in the 1962 missile crisis and, by English Wikipedia’s account, the Western Air Zone’s MiG-29 and MiG-23 base today, although FlightGlobal counts no Cuban fighter in day-to-day use in 2026.Open the San Antonio de los Baños page

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Dominican Air Force bases

Almost the whole Dominican Air Force flies from San Isidro, east of Santo Domingo, opened by Trujillo in 1953 under his own name; English Wikipedia names further bases at Puerto Plata and Barahona. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases, active and closed, is on the Dominican Air Force page.

Santo Domingo Province (Santo Domingo Este)San IsidroOpened on 23 March 1953 as Base Aérea Presidente Trujillo and renamed in 1961, the Loyalist stronghold of the 1965 civil war where the US 82nd Airborne landed, home of the last military Mustangs until 1984 and today of the eight A-29B Super Tucanos, the helicopter fleet and the February anniversary shows.Open the San Isidro page

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Sion closed to the Air Force in 2017. The runway is still there, and so is a L-39 Albatros with a second seat.

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