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hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/\">Order of Battle<\/a> &middot; Air bases<\/div>\n<h1>Air Bases<\/h1>\n<p class=\"sub\">Every air base in the Order of Battle: what is stationed there, what was, and which ones you can still fly a jet from.<\/p>\n<div class=\"marks\">\n<div class=\"mark\"><img data-opt-id=24004723  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/swiss-air-force-badge.png\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"badge\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Swiss Air Force badge\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"66\"><span class=\"mk\">Service badge<b>Swiss Air Force<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"rondel\" viewBox=\"0 0 100 100\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Swiss Air Force national marking\"><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"49\" fill=\"#d8232a\"\/><path d=\"M43.6 28.8h12.8v14.9h14.9v12.8h-14.9v14.9h-12.8v-14.9h-14.9v-12.8h14.9z\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">National marking<b>Red disc, white cross, since 1947<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"finflash\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Swiss national flag, worn as the fin marking\"><rect width=\"32\" height=\"32\" fill=\"#d8232a\"\/><path d=\"M13 6h6v7h7v6h-7v7h-6v-7H6v-6h7z\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">Fin flash<b>The flag, square, 6:7 cross<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>2034<\/b><span>Bases mapped<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1574<\/b><span>Still active<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>460<\/b><span>Closed or reserve<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1<\/b><span>You can fly from<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocred\">Photo: Andrew Bossi \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5)<\/div>\n<div class=\"accent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Operator<\/b>Swiss Air Force &middot; United States Air Force &middot; United States Naval Aviation &middot; United States Marine Corps Aviation &middot; United States Army Aviation Branch &middot; United States Coast Guard Aviation &middot; French Air and Space Force &middot; French Naval Aviation &middot; French Army Light Aviation &middot; French State Air Services &middot; Italian Air Force &middot; Italian Naval Aviation &middot; Italian Army Aviation &middot; Italian State Aviation &middot; German Air Force &middot; German Naval Aviation &middot; German Army Aviation &middot; German State Air Services &middot; Royal Canadian Air Force &middot; Canadian Naval and Army Aviation &middot; Canadian State Air Services &middot; Royal Air Force &middot; Fleet Air Arm &middot; Army Air Corps (United Kingdom) &middot; Polish Air Force &middot; Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force &middot; Belgian Air Force &middot; Royal Norwegian Air Force &middot; Swedish Air Force &middot; Royal Danish Air Force &middot; Finnish Air Force &middot; Spanish Air and Space Force &middot; Spanish Naval Air Arm &middot; Spanish Army Airmobile Force &middot; Portuguese Air Force &middot; Austrian Air Force &middot; Czech Air Force &middot; Hungarian Air Force &middot; Hellenic Air Force &middot; Hellenic Army Aviation &middot; Hellenic Navy Air Service &middot; Turkish Air Force &middot; Turkish Naval Aviation &middot; Turkish Army Aviation &middot; Romanian Air Force &middot; Bulgarian Air Force &middot; Slovak Air Force &middot; Croatian Air Force &middot; Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence &middot; Estonian Air Force &middot; Latvian Air Force &middot; Lithuanian Air Force &middot; Serbian Air Force and Air Defence &middot; North Macedonia Air Brigade &middot; Albanian Air Force &middot; Montenegrin Air Force &middot; Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina &middot; Irish Air Corps &middot; Cyprus Air Command &middot; Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta &middot; Ukrainian Air Force &middot; Russian Aerospace Forces &middot; Russian Naval Aviation &middot; Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus &middot; Moldovan Air Force &middot; Georgian Air Force &middot; Armenian Air Force &middot; Azerbaijani Air Forces &middot; People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Air Force &middot; People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Naval Air Force &middot; Republic of China Air Force &middot; Republic of China Army Aviation and Special Forces Command (aviation) &middot; Republic of China Navy aviation &middot; Japan Air Self-Defense Force &middot; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force aviation &middot; Japan Ground Self-Defense Force aviation &middot; Republic of Korea Air Force &middot; Republic of Korea Navy aviation (Naval Air Command) &middot; Republic of Korea Army Aviation &middot; Korean People&rsquo;s Army Air Force &middot; Mongolian Air Force &middot; Indian Air Force &middot; Indian Naval Air Arm &middot; Army Aviation Corps (India) &middot; Pakistan Air Force &middot; Pakistan Naval Air Arm &middot; Pakistan Army Aviation Corps &middot; Bangladesh Air Force &middot; Sri Lanka Air Force &middot; Nepalese Army Air Service &middot; Afghan Air Force &middot; Kazakh Air Defense Forces &middot; Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces &middot; Turkmen Air Force &middot; Kyrgyz Air Force &middot; Tajik Air Force &middot; Vietnam Air Defence &ndash; Air Force &middot; Lao People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Air Force &middot; Royal Cambodian Air Force &middot; Royal Thai Air Force &middot; Royal Thai Naval Air Division &middot; Myanmar Air Force &middot; Royal Malaysian Air Force &middot; Royal Malaysian Navy aviation (Fleet Air Arm) &middot; Republic of Singapore Air Force &middot; Indonesian Air Force &middot; Indonesian Naval Aviation (Puspenerbal) &middot; Philippine Air Force &middot; Philippine Navy Naval Air Wing &middot; Royal Brunei Air Force &middot; Israeli Air Force &middot; Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force &middot; Iraqi Air Force &middot; Syrian Air Force &middot; Royal Jordanian Air Force &middot; Lebanese Air Force &middot; Royal Saudi Air Force &middot; United Arab Emirates Air Force &middot; Qatar Emiri Air Force &middot; Royal Bahraini Air Force &middot; Kuwait Air Force &middot; Royal Air Force of Oman &middot; Yemeni Air Force &middot; Royal Australian Air Force &middot; Fleet Air Arm (Royal Australian Navy) &middot; Australian Army Aviation &middot; Royal New Zealand Air Force &middot; Papua New Guinea Defence Force Air Transport Wing &middot; Egyptian Air Force &middot; Algerian Air Force &middot; Royal Moroccan Air Force &middot; Tunisian Air Force &middot; Libyan Air Force &middot; Sudanese Air Force &middot; South Sudan Air Force &middot; Ethiopian Air Force &middot; Eritrean Air Force &middot; Somali Air Force &middot; Kenya Air Force &middot; Uganda People&rsquo;s Defence Forces Air Force &middot; Tanzania Air Force Command &middot; Rwandan Air Force &middot; Djiboutian Air Force &middot; Nigerian Air Force &middot; Ghana Air Force &middot; Senegalese Air Force &middot; Air Force of Ivory Coast &middot; Malian Air Force &middot; Burkina Faso Air Force &middot; Niger Air Force &middot; Chadian Air Force &middot; Mauritania Islamic Air Force &middot; Guinean Air Force &middot; Sierra Leone Air Wing &middot; Togolese Air Force &middot; Benin Air Force &middot; Cameroon Air Force &middot; South African Air Force &middot; National Air Force of Angola &middot; Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo &middot; Air Force of Zimbabwe &middot; Zambian Air Force &middot; Mozambique Air Force &middot; Air Arm Command (Botswana) &middot; Namibian Air Force &middot; Malawi Air Force &middot; Malagasy Air Force &middot; Congolese Air Force &middot; Gabonese Air Force &middot; Central African Republic Air Force &middot; Equatorial Guinea Air Force &middot; Burundi Air Force &middot; Seychelles Air Force &middot; Lesotho Defence Force Air Wing &middot; Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force Air Wing &middot; Brazilian Air Force &middot; Brazilian Naval Aviation &middot; Brazilian Army Aviation &middot; Argentine Air Force &middot; Argentine Naval Aviation &middot; Argentine Army Aviation &middot; Chilean Air Force &middot; Chilean Naval Aviation &middot; Peruvian Air Force &middot; Peruvian Naval Aviation &middot; Colombian Aerospace Force &middot; Colombian Naval Aviation &middot; Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela &middot; Ecuadorian Air Force &middot; Bolivian Air Force &middot; Paraguayan Air Force &middot; Uruguayan Air Force &middot; Guyana Defence Force Air Corps &middot; Suriname Air Force &middot; Mexican Air Force &middot; Mexican Naval Aviation &middot; Guatemalan Air Force &middot; Honduran Air Force &middot; Salvadoran Air Force &middot; Nicaraguan Air Force &middot; Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force &middot; Dominican Air Force &middot; Jamaica Defence Force Air Wing &middot; Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard &middot; Royal Bahamas Defence Force Air Wing &middot; Belize Defence Force Air Wing &middot; National Aeronaval Service &middot; Gambia Armed Forces Air Wing &middot; Guinea-Bissau Air Force &middot; Armed Forces of Liberia Air Wing &middot; Cape Verdean Coast Guard (air component) &middot; Comorian Air Force &middot; Mauritius Police Force Air Wing &middot; Maldives National Defence Force Air Corps &middot; His Majesty&rsquo;s Armed Forces Air Wing (Tonga) &middot; Air Vigilance Service &middot; Luxembourg Army (air component) &middot; Icelandic Coast Guard Aviation Department &middot; Haitian Aviation Corps &middot; Regional Security System Air Wing<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Verified<\/b>2026-10-01<\/span><a class=\"chip fly\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-albatros-in-switzerland\/\">Fly the L-39 Albatros from Sion<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Swiss Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/swiss-air-force\/\">Swiss Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/payerne\/\"><span class=\"rk\"><span class=\"cname\"><span class=\"cflag cf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Flag of the canton of Vaud\"><\/span>Vaud<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rh\">Payerne<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The main fighter base and the home of Fliegerstaffel 35 &mdash; the only Swiss base with Hornets on quick-reaction alert around the clock.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Payerne page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/meiringen\/\"><span class=\"rk\"><span class=\"cname\"><span class=\"cflag cf0\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Flag of the canton of Bern\"><\/span>Bern<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rh\">Meiringen<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Hornets in a mountain cavern: the Bernese Oberland base whose hardened shelters are cut into the rock at Unterbach.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Meiringen page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sion\/\"><span class=\"rk\"><span class=\"cname\"><span class=\"cflag cf7\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Flag of the canton of Valais\"><\/span>Valais<\/span><\/span><span class=\"rh\">Sion<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Closed to the Air Force in 2017, still open to jets &mdash; and the one runway in Switzerland where you can fly an L-39 yourself.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Sion page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>United States Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-air-force\/\">United States Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/nellis\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nevada<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Nellis Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Red Flag, the Aggressors, the Weapons School and the Thunderbirds &mdash; the base where the Air Force learns to fight, and loses on purpose.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Nellis Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/edwards\/\"><span class=\"rk\">California<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Edwards Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Rogers 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Edwards Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/davis-monthan\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Arizona<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Davis-Monthan Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Boneyard: 2,600 acres of stored aircraft in the Arizona desert &mdash; and the base the A-10 flew from for fifty years, until July 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ramstein\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Germany<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ramstein<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The largest mobility hub in the Air Force and the headquarters of USAFE-AFAFRICA, commanding a theatre that spans three continents.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ramstein page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kadena\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Japan<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kadena<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The largest American air base in the Pacific &mdash; and, since the Eagles left in 2025, one with no fighters of its own until the F-15EX arrives.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kadena page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lakenheath\/\"><span class=\"rk\">United Kingdom<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Air Force Lakenheath<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Air Force Lakenheath page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/aviano\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Italy<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Aviano<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An aerodrome since 1911, at the foot of the Carnic Alps. Deny Flight, Deliberate Force and Allied Force were all flown from this ramp.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Aviano page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/beale\/\"><span class=\"rk\">California<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Beale Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of the Blackbird, then the Dragon Lady. Seventy years on, the U-2 still climbs out of the Sacramento Valley to 70,000 feet.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Beale Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/holloman\/\"><span class=\"rk\">New Mexico<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Holloman Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The world&rsquo;s longest rocket sled track, sixteen years of F-117A Nighthawks, and the Air Force&rsquo;s biggest F-16 and MQ-9 schoolhouse on the edge of White Sands.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Holloman Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/whiteman\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Missouri<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Whiteman Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Whiteman Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/barksdale\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Louisiana<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Barksdale Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command and home of the Mighty Eighth &mdash; 47 B-52H bombers on a 22,000-acre installation in north-west Louisiana.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Barksdale Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/eglin\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Florida<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Eglin Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">464,000 acres across three Florida counties, where American air-delivered weapons are proved &mdash; and where the Doolittle Raiders learned to fly off a carrier.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Eglin Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/minot\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Dakota<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Minot Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The only base in the Air Force with two legs of the nuclear triad &mdash; B-52H bombers and 150 Minuteman III silos &mdash; and the base the 2007 Bent Spear incident is named for.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Minot Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/offutt\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nebraska<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Offutt Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Headquarters of United States Strategic Command, home of the 55th Wing&rsquo;s Rivet Joints, and the base where Looking Glass stayed airborne for twenty-nine years.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Offutt Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/f-e-warren\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Wyoming<\/span><span class=\"rh\">F. E. Warren Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The oldest continuously active base in the Air Force, founded in 1867 &mdash; and it has no runway at all, only two helicopter pads.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the F. E. Warren Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/malmstrom\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Montana<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Malmstrom Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the first Minuteman went on alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and where a whole flight of missiles dropped off alert in 1967.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Malmstrom Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/andersen\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Guam<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Andersen Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Guam&rsquo;s bomber island. Arc Light and Linebacker II launched from here, and the 36th Wing still owns no aircraft of its own &mdash; everything on the ramp is a visitor.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Andersen Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kunsan\/\"><span class=\"rk\">South Korea<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kunsan<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Wolf Pack &mdash; 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kunsan page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/misawa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Japan<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Misawa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Air Force&rsquo;s Wild Weasel base in northern Japan, now trading 36 F-16s for 48 F-35As &mdash; the first USAF F-35s permanently based in Japan.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Misawa page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/eielson\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Alaska<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Eielson Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Alaska&rsquo;s F-35 base at the end of one of North America&rsquo;s longest runways, and home of RED FLAG-Alaska since Mount Pinatubo pushed it north from Clark.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Eielson Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>United States Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-naval-aviation\/\">United States Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/pensacola\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Florida<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Naval Air Station Pensacola (Forrest Sherman Field)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Navy&rsquo;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&ndash;55 and the National Naval Aviation Museum, and the scene of the shooting of 6 December 2019 that killed three American sailors.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Naval Air Station Pensacola (Forrest Sherman Field) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/north-island\/\"><span class=\"rk\">California<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Naval Air Station North Island (Halsey Field)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Glenn Curtiss taught the Navy&rsquo;s first aviator to fly in 1911, named the Birthplace of Naval Aviation in 1963 and shared with the Army&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Naval Air Station North Island (Halsey Field) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/oceana\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Virginia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Naval Air Station Oceana (Apollo Soucek Field)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Navy&rsquo;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&rsquo;s count, in a Virginia Beach that has grown up to the fence.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Naval Air Station Oceana (Apollo Soucek Field) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/fallon\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nevada<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Naval Air Station Fallon (Van Voorhis Field)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Naval Air Station Fallon (Van Voorhis Field) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>United States Marine Corps Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-marine-corps-aviation\/\">United States Marine Corps Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cherry-point\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Carolina<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Commissioned on 20 May 1942 as Cunningham Field, after the Corps&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s first active-duty F-35Cs, KC-130Js and MQ-9A crew training.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/yuma\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Arizona<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Marine Corps Air Station Yuma<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/futenma\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Okinawa Prefecture (Ginowan)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Marine Corps Air Station Futenma<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>United States Army Aviation Branch bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-army-aviation-branch\/\">United States Army Aviation Branch page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/fort-rucker\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Alabama<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Fort Rucker (Cairns Army)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;s busiest, and the Army Aviation Museum are on a post that was Fort Novosel from 2023 to 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Fort Rucker (Cairns Army) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/campbell-army-airfield\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kentucky and Tennessee<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Campbell Army (Fort Campbell)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">On the Kentucky&ndash;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Campbell Army (Fort Campbell) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>United States Coast Guard Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-coast-guard-aviation\/\">United States Coast Guard Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/elizabeth-city\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Carolina<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Commissioned 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&rsquo;s count, Hercules as far as Greenland and the Azores, owns the runways it shares with the civil airport and hosts the Coast Guard&rsquo;s aviation depot and maintenance school.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kodiak\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Alaska<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>French Air and Space Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/french-air-and-space-force\/\">French Air and Space Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-113-saint-dizier\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Haute-Marne<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Base a&#233;rienne 113 Saint-Dizier-Robinson<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The first Rafale base and the home of the airborne nuclear deterrent &mdash; and the runway the first shots over Libya were flown from in March 2011.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Base a&#233;rienne 113 Saint-Dizier-Robinson page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-118-mont-de-marsan\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Landes<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Base a&#233;rienne 118 Mont-de-Marsan<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the French air force decides how to fight: the CEAM trials centre, three Rafale squadrons and the only r&#233;giment in the service, the Normandie-Niemen.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Base a&#233;rienne 118 Mont-de-Marsan page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-125-istres\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bouches-du-Rh&#244;ne<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Base a&#233;rienne 125 Istres-Le Tub&#233;<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The longest runway in France, Europe&rsquo;s biggest tanker fleet and the flight test centre &mdash; the base most French deployments actually leave from.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Base a&#233;rienne 125 Istres-Le Tub&#233; page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-702-avord\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cher<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Base a&#233;rienne 702 Avord<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Four E-3F Sentries in the middle of France: the only airborne early warning aircraft owned outright by a continental Western European air force.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Base a&#233;rienne 702 Avord page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-701-salon-de-provence\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bouches-du-Rh&#244;ne<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Base a&#233;rienne 701 Salon-de-Provence<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The air academy, the Patrouille de France since 1964, and the motto the whole service took from Guynemer: <em>Faire face<\/em>.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Base a&#233;rienne 701 Salon-de-Provence page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>French Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/french-naval-aviation\/\">French Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ban-landivisiau\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Finist&#232;re<\/span><span class=\"rh\">BAN Landivisiau<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the BAN Landivisiau page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Italian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/italian-air-force\/\">Italian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/amendola\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Puglia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Amendola<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The first F-35 base in Europe, the largest military airfield in Italy, and the home of Italian armed drones.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Amendola page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ghedi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lombardia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ghedi<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Tornado base turning into an F-35 base &mdash; and the Italian end of NATO nuclear sharing.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ghedi page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cameri\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Piemonte<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cameri<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The only F-35 assembly line outside the United States, on a field that has been flying since 1910.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cameri page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/rivolto\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Friuli-Venezia Giulia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Rivolto<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of the Frecce Tricolori since 1961, and of the air force&rsquo;s ground-based missile wing.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Rivolto page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/grosseto\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Toscana<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Grosseto<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 4th Wing, the Baracca squadron and round-the-clock Eurofighter alert over central Italy.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Grosseto page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/decimomannu\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Sardegna<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Decimomannu<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Decades as NATO&rsquo;s Mediterranean air combat training base, now the International Flight Training School.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Decimomannu page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>German Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/german-air-force\/\">German Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/buechel\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Rheinland-Pfalz<\/span><span class=\"rh\">B&#252;chel<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Tornado wing that carries Germany&rsquo;s share of NATO nuclear sharing, now becoming the F-35A base.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the B&#252;chel page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/wittmund\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Niedersachsen<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Wittmundhafen<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Northern quick reaction alert, and the wing that carries Manfred von Richthofen&rsquo;s name.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Wittmundhafen page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/neuburg\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bayern<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Neuburg<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Southern quick reaction alert over Bavaria, and the base that built the Me 262.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Neuburg page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/noervenich\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nordrhein-Westfalen<\/span><span class=\"rh\">N&#246;rvenich<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Boelcke wing, the first German unit on the F-84F and the F-104, and Germany&rsquo;s host field for foreign detachments.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the N&#246;rvenich page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/laage\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Mecklenburg-Vorpommern<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Laage \/ Rostock-Laage Airport<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The former Nationale Volksarmee base where Luftwaffe MiG-29s flew until 2004, now the Eurofighter training wing.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Laage \/ Rostock-Laage Airport page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/wunstorf\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Niedersachsen<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Wunstorf<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The A400M main operating base, and a Berlin Airlift field that has never stopped flying transports.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Wunstorf page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/geilenkirchen\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nordrhein-Westfalen<\/span><span class=\"rh\">NATO Geilenkirchen<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Not a Luftwaffe base at all: NATO&rsquo;s own AWACS wing, multinational, on the Luxembourg register.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the NATO Geilenkirchen page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/nordholz\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Niedersachsen<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Nordholz Naval<\/span><span class=\"rp\">German naval aviation since 1912 &mdash; Zeppelins, Orions, and now the P-8A Poseidon.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Nordholz Naval page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>German Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/german-naval-aviation\/\">German Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/nordholz\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Niedersachsen<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Nordholz Naval<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The whole of German naval aviation on one airfield, and a Zeppelin base since 1912.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Nordholz Naval page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Canadian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-canadian-air-force\/\">Royal Canadian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cold-lake\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Alberta<\/span><span class=\"rh\">4 Wing Cold Lake<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The main fighter base, the country&rsquo;s biggest air weapons range, and where the F-35 is meant to land.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 4 Wing Cold Lake page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bagotville\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Qu&#233;bec<\/span><span class=\"rh\">3 Wing Bagotville<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The francophone fighter base, NORAD alert for eastern Canada, and 425 &quot;Alouette&quot;.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 3 Wing Bagotville page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/trenton\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Ontario<\/span><span class=\"rh\">8 Wing Trenton<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The airlift hub, the parachute school, and the end of the Highway of Heroes.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 8 Wing Trenton page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/greenwood\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nova Scotia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">14 Wing Greenwood<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Atlantic maritime patrol, the Aurora, and the anti-submarine watch on the North Atlantic.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 14 Wing Greenwood page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/comox\/\"><span class=\"rk\">British Columbia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">19 Wing Comox<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Pacific search and rescue over mountains and open ocean, and the Kingfisher&rsquo;s first home.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 19 Wing Comox page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/goose-bay\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Newfoundland and Labrador<\/span><span class=\"rh\">5 Wing Goose Bay<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The airfield the Americans cut out of Labrador in 1941, and what it does now.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 5 Wing Goose Bay page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/shearwater\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nova Scotia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">12 Wing Shearwater<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A hundred years of naval aviation, the Sea King&rsquo;s fifty years and the Cyclone that replaced it.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 12 Wing Shearwater page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/moose-jaw\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Saskatchewan<\/span><span class=\"rh\">15 Wing Moose Jaw<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where every Canadian military pilot learns to fly, and where the Snowbirds live.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 15 Wing Moose Jaw page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/winnipeg\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Manitoba<\/span><span class=\"rh\">17 Wing Winnipeg<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The operational brain of the RCAF, sharing a runway with an international airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 17 Wing Winnipeg page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/petawawa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Ontario<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Garrison Petawawa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An army garrison flying air force Chinooks &mdash; the thing readers most often get wrong.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Garrison Petawawa page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Canadian Naval and Army Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/canadian-naval-and-army-aviation\/\">Canadian Naval and Army Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/shearwater\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nova Scotia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">HMCS Shearwater (Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The only naval air station Canada ever had, and the place all of this happened.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the HMCS Shearwater (Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-kingdom-royal-air-force\/\">Royal Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lossiemouth\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Moray, Scotland<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Air Force Lossiemouth<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Quick Reaction Alert for the northern sky, the Tirpitz raids, twenty-six years as HMS Fulmar &mdash; and a decade with no maritime patrol aircraft before the Poseidon came.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Air Force Lossiemouth page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/coningsby\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lincolnshire, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Air Force Coningsby<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Southern 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Air Force Coningsby page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/marham\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Norfolk, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Air Force Marham<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where RAF air-to-air refuelling grew up, thirty-seven years of Tornado, and now the F-35B Lightning Force &mdash; run jointly with the Royal Navy and flown from aircraft carriers.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Air Force Marham page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/brize-norton\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Oxfordshire, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Air Force Brize Norton<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The RAF&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Air Force Brize Norton page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/waddington\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lincolnshire, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Air Force Waddington<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Air Force Waddington page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/akrotiri\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Western Sovereign Base Area, Cyprus<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Air Force Akrotiri<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An RAF airfield on British sovereign soil in Cyprus. Suez, the 1974 invasion, every Middle East operation since &mdash; and a drone strike in March 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Air Force Akrotiri page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Fleet Air Arm bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/fleet-air-arm\/\">Fleet Air Arm page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/yeovilton\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Somerset, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A wartime fighter school of 1940 and one of the Navy&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Wildcat regiment, with the Fleet Air Arm Museum on the airfield edge.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/culdrose\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cornwall, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Commissioned in 1947 as a fighting school meant to last about ten years, it became the Navy&rsquo;s anti-submarine helicopter base and Cornwall&rsquo;s rescue station until 2016; every Royal Navy Merlin HM2, including the Crowsnest early-warning version, flies from here.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Army Air Corps (United Kingdom) bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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, G&#252;tersloh, in 2013. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 13 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/army-air-corps-united-kingdom\/\">Army Air Corps page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/middle-wallop\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Hampshire, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Middle Wallop Flying Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Middle Wallop Flying Station page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/wattisham\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Suffolk, England<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Wattisham Flying Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An RAF station from 1939 to 1992, whose Blenheims flew the RAF&rsquo;s first attack of the Second World War and whose Lightnings and Phantoms stood Cold War alert, and since 1993 the Army&rsquo;s attack helicopter base, where 3 and 4 Regiments fly the AH-64E Apache.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Wattisham Flying Station page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Polish Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/polish-air-force\/\">Polish Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lask\/\"><span class=\"rk\">&#321;&#243;dzkie (&#321;&#243;d&#378;)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">32nd Tactical &#321;ask<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Poland&rsquo;s first F-35 base since May 2026, host of America&rsquo;s first permanent air detachment in Poland since 2012, and thirty-five years of MiG-21s before that.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 32nd Tactical &#321;ask page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/poznan-krzesiny\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Wielkopolskie (Greater Poland)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">31st Tactical Pozna&#324;-Krzesiny<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Poland&rsquo;s F-16 era began in 2006: the Tiger squadron, the first NATO Tiger Meet in Poland, Norwegian F-35s on the eastern flank &mdash; and a long fight over jet noise.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 31st Tactical Pozna&#324;-Krzesiny page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/deblin\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lubelskie (Lublin)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">41st Air Training Base D&#281;blin<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The School of Eaglets: almost every Polish military pilot since 1927 learned to fly here, from the Battle of Britain generation to today&rsquo;s F-35 pilots on the M-346 Bielik.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 41st Air Training Base D&#281;blin page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/powidz\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Wielkopolskie (Greater Poland)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">33rd Air Transport Base Powidz<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Poland&rsquo;s Hercules base, home of its special operations aviation, and now the site of the US Army&rsquo;s newest prepositioned-stock depot in Europe.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 33rd Air Transport Base Powidz page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/malbork\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Pomorskie (Pomerania)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">22nd Tactical Malbork<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The last MiG-29 base in Poland, named after Stanis&#322;aw Skalski &mdash; and NATO&rsquo;s landing ground a few minutes&rsquo; flight from Kaliningrad.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 22nd Tactical Malbork page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/warsaw\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Mazowieckie (Masovia)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">1st Air Transport Base Warsaw<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Poland&rsquo;s government airline for sixty-six years, the regiment lost at Smole&#324;sk in 2010, and the new VIP fleet built after it.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the 1st Air Transport Base Warsaw page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-netherlands-air-and-space-force\/\">Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/leeuwarden\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Friesland (Frysl&#226;n)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Leeuwarden<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The first Dutch jet fighter base in 1949, the first with the F-16 in 1979 and the first home of the Dutch F-35 &mdash; and now the base of the MQ-9A Reapers and the Frisian Flag exercise.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Leeuwarden page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/volkel\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Brabant (Noord-Brabant)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Volkel<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the Dutch F-16 story ended in September 2024, home of the tiger squadron&rsquo;s F-35s, and the Dutch base named in NATO nuclear-sharing reporting.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Volkel page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/soesterberg\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Utrecht<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Soesterberg<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The birthplace of Dutch military aviation in 1913, forty years of American fighters at Camp New Amsterdam, and now the Nationaal Militair Museum.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Soesterberg page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/gilze-rijen\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Brabant (Noord-Brabant)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Gilze-Rijen<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where a Dutch military aviator landed on the heath in 1913, and since 2008 the headquarters of every Dutch military helicopter &mdash; Apache, Chinook and Cougar.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Gilze-Rijen page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/eindhoven\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Brabant (Noord-Brabant)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Eindhoven<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The transport hub: Hercules, the government Gulfstream, NATO&rsquo;s shared A330 tanker fleet and the European Air Transport Command, on a runway shared with a busy civil airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Eindhoven page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Belgian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Belgium flies from five air bases; Bierset has closed and Chi&#232;vres 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/belgian-air-force\/\">Belgian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kleine-brogel\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Limburg<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kleine-Brogel<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Belgium&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kleine-Brogel page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/florennes\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Namur<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Florennes<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Belgium&rsquo;s first F-35 base since October 2025 and home of the MQ-9B &mdash; and from 1984 to 1989 the site of an American nuclear cruise-missile wing.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Florennes page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/beauvechain\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Walloon Brabant<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Beauvechain<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Belgium&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Beauvechain page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/melsbroek\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Flemish Brabant<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Melsbroek<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The military side of Brussels Airport: almost fifty years of Hercules, the last flights out of Kabul, and the binational Belgian-Luxembourg A400M fleet.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Melsbroek page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Norwegian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Norway concentrated its fighters at &#216;rland after the 2012 decision, with a forward alert base at Evenes, and Bod&#248; and And&#248;ya lost their squadrons. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-norwegian-air-force\/\">Royal Norwegian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/orland\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Tr&#248;ndelag<\/span><span class=\"rh\">&#216;rland Air Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of the Norwegian F-35 since 2017, sixty-five years of 338 Squadron before that, and NATO&rsquo;s AWACS landing ground in the north.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the &#216;rland Air Station page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/evenes\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nordland<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Evenes Air Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Evenes Air Station page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bardufoss\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Troms<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bardufoss Air Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Norway&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Bardufoss Air Station page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/andoya\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nordland<\/span><span class=\"rh\">And&#248;ya Air Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Six 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the And&#248;ya Air Station page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bodo\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nordland<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bod&#248; Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The U-2&rsquo;s intended landing ground in 1960 and for decades Norway&rsquo;s largest air station, it lost its fighters in 2022 and in October 2025 became home to NATO&rsquo;s new air operations centre for the north.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Bod&#248; Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Swedish Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Sweden closed most of its Cold War wings between 1969 and 2005 and now keeps three fighter wings, at S&#229;ten&#228;s, Ronneby and Lule&#229;. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 17 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/swedish-air-force\/\">Swedish Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/save\/\"><span class=\"rk\">V&#228;stra G&#246;taland County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">S&#228;ve (F 9)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Sweden&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the S&#228;ve (F 9) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/satenas\/\"><span class=\"rk\">V&#228;stra G&#246;taland County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">S&#229;ten&#228;s (F 7)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Europe&rsquo;s first Hercules base in 1965, the first Viggen wing in 1971, the school for every Swedish Gripen pilot &mdash; and, since October 2025, the first wing with the Gripen E.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the S&#229;ten&#228;s (F 7) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lulea-kallax\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Norrbotten County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lule&#229;-Kallax (F 21)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Sweden&rsquo;s northernmost air wing: half a century of camera-nosed reconnaissance Drakens and Viggens, Gripens today, and a 3,350-metre runway shared with Lule&#229; Airport beside one of the world&rsquo;s largest air exercise areas.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Lule&#229;-Kallax (F 21) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/linkoping-malmen\/\"><span class=\"rk\">&#214;sterg&#246;tland County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Link&#246;ping-Malmen<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Link&#246;ping-Malmen page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ronneby\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Blekinge County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ronneby (F 17)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">From torpedo bombers in 1944 to two combat-ready Gripen squadrons guarding the southern Baltic &mdash; and the base whose fire-training foam poisoned Kallinge&rsquo;s drinking water in Sweden&rsquo;s worst PFAS case.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ronneby (F 17) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Danish Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Denmark gathered every combat aircraft at Skrydstrup in 2006 and closed V&#230;rl&#248;se, Vandel, Tirstrup and Avn&#248; after the Cold War. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-danish-air-force\/\">Royal Danish Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/skrydstrup\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Skrydstrup<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Denmark&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Skrydstrup page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/karup\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Central Denmark Region (Region Midtjylland)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Karup<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Denmark&rsquo;s largest air station, laid out by the Luftwaffe in 1940: NATO&rsquo;s Baltic air command for three decades, the Draken base until 1993&ndash;1994, home of every Danish military helicopter and the chosen base for new A330 tankers.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Karup page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/aalborg\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Denmark Region (Region Nordjylland)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Aalborg<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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 &mdash; with Denmark&rsquo;s long-range drones to follow from 2028.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Aalborg page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/vaerlose\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Capital Region of Denmark (Region Hovedstaden)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">V&#230;rl&#248;se<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the army air corps lost 11 aircraft destroyed and 14 badly damaged on the morning of 9 April 1940; the air force&rsquo;s first headquarters, closed in 2004 and now a nature area with its F-16 shelters still standing.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the V&#230;rl&#248;se page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Finnish Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/finnish-air-force\/\">Finnish Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/rovaniemi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lapland (Lappi)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Rovaniemi (Lapland Air Wing)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Rovaniemi (Lapland Air Wing) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kuopio-rissala\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Savo (Pohjois-Savo)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Rissala (Karelia Air Wing)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Heir to Finland&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Rissala (Karelia Air Wing) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/tikkakoski\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Central Finland (Keski-Suomi)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Tikkakoski (Air Force Academy)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Headquarters of the Finnish Air Force since the early 1970s, school for every Finnish military pilot since 2015, home of the Midnight Hawks &mdash; and where a Finn first broke the sound barrier in 1958.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Tikkakoski (Air Force Academy) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kauhava\/\"><span class=\"rk\">South Ostrobothnia (Etel&#228;-Pohjanmaa)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kauhava (former Air Force Academy)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">For 85 years the place Finnish military pilots learned to fly, a wartime school that trained 900 pilots in 1939&ndash;1944; since flying ended in 2014 its 2,700-metre runway has served a flying club and a business park.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kauhava (former Air Force Academy) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Spanish Air and Space Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Spain&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/spanish-air-and-space-force\/\">Spanish Air and Space Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/torrejon\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Community of Madrid<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Torrej&#243;n<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Madrid&rsquo;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&rsquo;s air operations centre for southern Europe.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Torrej&#243;n page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/moron\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Andalusia<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Mor&#243;n<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Spain&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Mor&#243;n page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/zaragoza\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Aragon<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Zaragoza<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Spain&rsquo;s first Hornet base since 1986, an American base for 34 years and a Space Shuttle abort site &mdash; and home of Ala 31, which traded four decades of Hercules for the A400M.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Zaragoza page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/albacete-los-llanos\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Castilla-La Mancha<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Albacete-Los Llanos<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The last Spanish Mirage F1 wing, a Eurofighter base since 2012 and, since 2009, home of NATO&rsquo;s Tactical Leadership Programme &mdash; where a Greek F-16 crashed into the flight line in January 2015, killing 11.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Albacete-Los Llanos page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/gando\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Canary Islands<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Gando<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Spain&rsquo;s fighter base in the Atlantic, where flying began in 1924 and Franco&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Gando page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Spanish Naval Air Arm bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Every manned squadron of the Spanish Naval Air Arm flies from Rota, and the stations of the pre-war Aeron&#225;utica Naval at San Javier, Barcelona, Mah&#243;n 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/spanish-naval-air-arm\/\">Spanish Naval Air Arm page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/rota\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Andalusia (Province of C&#225;diz)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Rota Naval Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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 D&#233;dalo in December 1976, and every manned squadron of the Flotilla de Aeronaves flies from its 3,690-metre runway.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Rota Naval Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Spanish Army Airmobile Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 Aai&#250;n 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/spanish-army-airmobile-force\/\">Spanish Army Airmobile Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/colmenar-viejo\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Community of Madrid<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Colmenar Viejo Army Helicopter Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where 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 &#193;ngel Mat&#233; S&#225;nchez, killed near it in 1977.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Colmenar Viejo Army Helicopter Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/almagro\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Castile-La Mancha (Ciudad Real)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Almagro Army Helicopter Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The only base of the Army&rsquo;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&rsquo;s eastern flank in Slovakia.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Almagro Army Helicopter Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Portuguese Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/portuguese-air-force\/\">Portuguese Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/monte-real\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Leiria District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Monte Real<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Portugal&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Monte Real page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/beja\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Beja District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Beja<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Created in 1964 under agreements with West Germany, whose Luftwaffe trained here for almost three decades, Portugal&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Beja page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/montijo\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Set&#250;bal District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Montijo<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The navy&rsquo;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&rsquo;s military terminal by the end of 2028.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Montijo page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sintra\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lisbon District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Sintra<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Sintra page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lajes\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Autonomous Region of the Azores (Regi&#227;o Aut&#243;noma dos A&#231;ores)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lajes<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Air 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Lajes page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Austrian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 H&#246;rsching. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 9 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/austrian-air-force\/\">Austrian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/zeltweg\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Styria (Steiermark)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Zeltweg<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Austria&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Zeltweg page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/horsching\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Upper Austria (Ober&#246;sterreich)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Linz-H&#246;rsching<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Linz-H&#246;rsching page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/langenlebarn\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lower Austria (Nieder&#246;sterreich)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Langenlebarn<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the Second Republic&rsquo;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 &ndash; Flugplatz General Pabisch on 15 May 2024 after dropping the name of the ace Godwin von Brumowski.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Langenlebarn page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/aigen-im-ennstal\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Styria (Steiermark)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Aigen im Ennstal<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The First Republic&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Aigen im Ennstal page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/wiener-neustadt\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lower Austria (Nieder&#246;sterreich)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Wiener Neustadt West<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Austria&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Wiener Neustadt West page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Czech Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">The Czech Republic keeps every fighter at &#268;&#225;slav, its attack helicopters at N&#225;m&#283;&#353;&#357; nad Oslavou and its transports at Prague-Kbely, and has closed Cold War jet bases such as &#381;atec and Plze&#328;-L&#237;n&#283;. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 10 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/czech-air-force\/\">Czech Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/caslav\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Central Bohemian Region (St&#345;edo&#269;esk&#253; kraj)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">&#268;&#225;slav<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of the 28th Fighter-Bomber Regiment&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the &#268;&#225;slav page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/namest\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Vyso&#269;ina Region (Kraj Vyso&#269;ina)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">N&#225;m&#283;&#353;&#357; nad Oslavou<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built for jets in 1956&ndash;1960 and named after the RAF&rsquo;s No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron: a Sukhoi strike base for decades and, since 2013, the home of the army&rsquo;s attack and transport helicopters, now US-built Vipers and Venoms.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the N&#225;m&#283;&#353;&#357; nad Oslavou page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kbely\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Prague (Hlavn&#237; m&#283;sto Praha)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Prague-Kbely<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Czechoslovak military flying began in 1918, Prague&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Prague-Kbely page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/pardubice\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Pardubice Region (Pardubick&#253; kraj)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Pardubice<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Jan Ka&#353;par 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Pardubice page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Hungarian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Hungary flies from three military airfields &mdash; Kecskem&#233;t for fighters and transports, Szolnok for helicopters and P&#225;pa for NATO&rsquo;s C-17s &mdash; and has closed Tasz&#225;r 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/hungarian-air-force\/\">Hungarian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kecskemet\/\"><span class=\"rk\">B&#225;cs-Kiskun County (B&#225;cs-Kiskun v&#225;rmegye)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kecskem&#233;t<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Hungary&rsquo;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 &mdash; 18 by June 2026 &mdash; alongside the KC-390 tanker-transports.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kecskem&#233;t page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/papa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Veszpr&#233;m County (Veszpr&#233;m v&#225;rmegye)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">P&#225;pa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the P&#225;pa page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/szolnok\/\"><span class=\"rk\">J&#225;sz-Nagykun-Szolnok County (J&#225;sz-Nagykun-Szolnok v&#225;rmegye)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Szolnok<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Founded in 1940 to train pilots, and now the home of Hungary&rsquo;s combat, transport and rescue helicopters: 36 new H145Ms and H225Ms delivered in 2019&ndash;2025, after the Mi-24 and Mi-17 bowed out here on 17 June 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Szolnok page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/taszar\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Somogy County (Somogy v&#225;rmegye)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Tasz&#225;r<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Kapos MiG-21 base for almost four decades, then from December 1995 NATO&rsquo;s first base on former Warsaw Pact soil &mdash; the US staging post for Bosnia and a US Marine Hornet base in the 1999 Kosovo campaign &mdash; until it closed at the end of 2005.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Tasz&#225;r page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Hellenic Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/hellenic-air-force\/\">Hellenic Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/tanagra\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Central Greece (Boeotia)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Tanagra<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Greece&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Tanagra page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/andravida\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Western Greece (Elis)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Andravida<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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 &mdash; and the reported base for the 20 F-35As on order.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Andravida page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/larissa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Thessaly (Larissa)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Larissa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Larissa page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/souda\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Crete (Chania)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Souda<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Crete&rsquo;s fighter wing, with two F-16 Block 52+ squadrons since 2003, on a runway shared with Chania&rsquo;s airport and the US Naval Support Activity &mdash; and the base from which Operation Niki flew commandos to Cyprus in July 1974.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Souda page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kalamata\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Peloponnese (Messenia)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kalamata<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Hellenic Air Force&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Elbit Systems.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kalamata page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Hellenic Army Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/hellenic-army-aviation\/\">Hellenic Army Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/stefanovikeio\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Thessaly (Magnesia)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Stefanovikeio Army<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Stefanovikeio Army page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Hellenic Navy Air Service bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/hellenic-navy-air-service\/\">Hellenic Navy Air Service page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kotroni\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Attica (East Attica, Marathon)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kotroni Naval<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A hilltop naval fort north-west of Marathon, home of the navy&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kotroni Naval page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Turkish Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Turkey flies its fighters from a network of numbered main jet bases across Anatolia, shares Incirlik with the US Air Force, and stood down Ak&#305;nc&#305; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/turkish-air-force\/\">Turkish Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/konya\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Konya Province (Central Anatolia)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Konya<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Turkish Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Konya page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/eskisehir\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Eski&#351;ehir Province (Central Anatolia)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Eski&#351;ehir<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Turkey&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Eski&#351;ehir page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/murted\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Ankara Province (Central Anatolia)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">M&#252;rted (formerly Ak&#305;nc&#305;)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened in 1960 to defend Ankara and later renamed Ak&#305;nc&#305;; 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the M&#252;rted (formerly Ak&#305;nc&#305;) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/balikesir\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bal&#305;kesir Province (Marmara)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bal&#305;kesir<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Turkey&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Bal&#305;kesir page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/incirlik\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Adana Province (Mediterranean)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">&#304;ncirlik<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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 &mdash; and a base whose commander backed the 2016 coup attempt.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the &#304;ncirlik page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Turkish Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Turkish Naval Aviation flies from one main air station, Cengiz Topel near &#304;zmit, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/turkish-naval-aviation\/\">Turkish Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cengiz-topel\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kocaeli Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cengiz Topel Naval Air Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The headquarters of Turkish Naval Aviation east of &#304;zmit, named after an air force pilot who died after being shot down over Cyprus in 1964, home of the navy&rsquo;s S-2 Trackers until 1994 and, since 2011, also Kocaeli&rsquo;s civil airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cengiz Topel Naval Air Station page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Turkish Army Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Turkish Army Aviation flies from four regimental airfields &mdash; G&#252;vercinlik, Erha&#231;, Gaziemir and Samand&#305;ra &mdash; and trains its pilots at Isparta. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 5 stations is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/turkish-army-aviation\/\">Turkish Army Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/guvercinlik\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Ankara Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">G&#252;vercinlik Army<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Turkish Army&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the G&#252;vercinlik Army page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Romanian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Romania flies its F-16s from Fete&#537;ti and C&#226;mpia Turzii, hosts NATO fighters at Mihail Kog&#259;lniceanu 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/romanian-air-force\/\">Romanian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/fetesti\/\"><span class=\"rk\">C&#259;l&#259;ra&#537;i County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Fete&#537;ti (86th)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Laid out as a reserve landing ground in 1939, a MiG base of the 86th Regiment for decades and Romania&rsquo;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 Buz&#259;u County.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Fete&#537;ti (86th) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/campia-turzii\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cluj County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">C&#226;mpia Turzii (71st)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Transylvania&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the C&#226;mpia Turzii (71st) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/mihail-kogalniceanu\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Constan&#539;a County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Mihail Kog&#259;lniceanu (57th)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">For four decades the home of Romania&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Mihail Kog&#259;lniceanu (57th) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Bulgarian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/bulgarian-air-force\/\">Bulgarian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/graf-ignatievo\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Plovdiv Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Graf Ignatievo<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The &ldquo;German airfield&rdquo;, in use since 1940, where Bulgaria&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Graf Ignatievo page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bezmer\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Yambol Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bezmer<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Bezmer page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Slovak Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Slovakia keeps its fighters at Slia&#269;, flying them from Malacky-Kuchy&#328;a while Slia&#269; is rebuilt, and has ended military flying at Ko&#353;ice and Pie&#353;&#357;any. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 7 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/slovak-air-force\/\">Slovak Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sliac\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bansk&#225; Bystrica Region (Banskobystrick&#253; kraj)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Slia&#269;<\/span><span class=\"rp\">As Tri Duby the airbridge of the 1944 uprising, a Soviet air base from 1968 to 1990, home of Slovakia&rsquo;s MiG-29s for three decades and, once its reconstruction is finished, expected in 2027, the base of the F-16.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Slia&#269; page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/malacky\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bratislava Region (Bratislavsk&#253; kraj)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Malacky (Kuchy&#328;a)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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 Slia&#269; reopens; the 46th Wing flies the C-27J and L-410 transports from here.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Malacky (Kuchy&#328;a) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Croatian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 &#381;eljava was demolished in 1991&ndash;1992. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/croatian-air-force\/\">Croatian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/zagreb-pleso\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Zagreb County (Zagreba&#269;ka &#382;upanija), at Velika Gorica<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Zagreb-Pleso<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Croatia&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Zagreb-Pleso page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/zadar-zemunik\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Zadar County (Zadarska &#382;upanija), at Zemunik Donji<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Zadar-Zemunik<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Zadar-Zemunik page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/slovenian-air-force-and-air-defence\/\">Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cerklje-ob-krki\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Municipality of Bre&#382;ice, Lower Sava (Posavje)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cerklje ob Krki<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&ndash;2020 for &#8364;105.7 million, and now the brigade&rsquo;s headquarters and home of Slovenia&rsquo;s two C-27J Spartans.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cerklje ob Krki page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Estonian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Estonia has one air base, &#196;mari, where allied NATO fighters have stood alert since 2014; P&#228;rnu stood in while &#196;mari was rebuilt in 2024, and the interwar stations at Tallinn-Lasnam&#228;e, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/estonian-air-force\/\">Estonian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/amari\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Harju County (Harjumaa), L&#228;&#228;ne-Harju Parish<\/span><span class=\"rh\">&#196;mari<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A Soviet airfield of 1940&ndash;1941 that flew Su-24s in the Cold War, Estonia&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the &#196;mari page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Latvian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Latvia keeps every air force unit at Lielv&#257;rde, a former Soviet base that has hosted allied NATO fighters since 2024; Spilve, the air force&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/latvian-air-force\/\">Latvian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lielvarde\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Ogre Municipality (Ogres novads), Rembate parish<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lielv&#257;rde<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built in 1969 for a Soviet attack aircraft regiment that left in 1993, Latvia&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Lielv&#257;rde page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Lithuanian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Lithuania flies from one military air base, &#352;iauliai, where allied NATO fighters have stood alert since 2004, with rescue posts at Kaunas and Nemirset&#279;; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/lithuanian-air-force\/\">Lithuanian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/siauliai\/\"><span class=\"rk\">&#352;iauliai County (&#352;iauli&#371; apskritis)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">&#352;iauliai<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened as the &#381;okniai 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&rsquo;s Baltic Air Policing, whose alert fighters are always allied; Lithuania&rsquo;s C-27Js and rescue helicopters fly from it too.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the &#352;iauliai page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Serbian Air Force and Air Defence bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Serbia flies from three military airfields, Batajnica, La&#273;evci and Ni&#353;; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/serbian-air-force-and-air-defence\/\">Serbian Air Force and Air Defence page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/batajnica\/\"><span class=\"rk\">City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Zemun municipality<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Batajnica<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Serbia&rsquo;s main air base and the home of its fighters, opened in May 1951: heavily bombed in 1999, named since 2019 after Colonel Milenko Pavlovi&#263;, the regiment commander killed in his MiG-29 on 4 May 1999, and today the base of the 204th Air Brigade&rsquo;s MiG-29s, G-4s, transports and helicopters.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Batajnica page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ladjevci\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Ra&#353;ka District (Ra&#353;ki okrug), near Kraljevo<\/span><span class=\"rh\">La&#273;evci (Morava)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;s base for J-22 Oraos, Mi-35 attack helicopters and Chinese armed drones, shared since 2019 with the civil Morava Airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the La&#273;evci (Morava) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>North Macedonia Air Brigade bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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&ndash;1944 have closed. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 3 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/north-macedonia-air-brigade\/\">North Macedonia Air Brigade page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/petrovec\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Skopje Statistical Region (airport in Petrovec Municipality)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Petrovec<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The only military flying base in North Macedonia, beside Skopje&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Mi-8\/17 helicopters and Zlin trainers.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Petrovec page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Albanian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Albania flies its drones from Ku&#231;ov&#235;, rebuilt by NATO and reopened in 2024, and its helicopters from Fark&#235;; the cave base at Gjad&#235;r has trained Black Hawk crews since 2024, and the old flying school airfield at Vlor&#235; has closed. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 6 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/albanian-air-force\/\">Albanian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kucova\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Berat County (Qarku i Beratit)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ku&#231;ov&#235;<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Albania&rsquo;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&rsquo;s three Bayraktar TB2 drones.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ku&#231;ov&#235; page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/gjader\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lezh&#235; County (Qarku i Lezh&#235;s)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Gjad&#235;r<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Communist Albania&rsquo;s cave base near Lezh&#235;, opened in 1974 for Chinese-built F-6 and F-7A fighters, a US drone base over Bosnia in 1994&ndash;1995, wrecked in the 1997 unrest and reactivated in July 2024 for Black Hawk crew training, with retired MiGs still stored in its tunnels.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Gjad&#235;r page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Montenegrin Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Montenegro has a single air base, Golubovci, on the military side of Podgorica Airport; the &#352;ip&#269;anik 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/montenegrin-air-force\/\">Montenegrin Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/golubovci\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Golubovci, Zeta, south of Podgorica<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Golubovci<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Montenegro&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Golubovci page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 &#381;eljava was wrecked in 1991&ndash;1992. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/air-force-and-anti-aircraft-defence-of-bosnia-and-herzegovina\/\">Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/banja-luka-mahovljani\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Republika Srpska, municipality of Lakta&#353;i<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Mahovljani (Banja Luka)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Mahovljani (Banja Luka) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sarajevo\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Canton, municipality of Ilid&#382;a (Butmir)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Sarajevo International Airport (Butmir)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Taken on the night of 4 to 5 April 1992 by members of the Yugoslav Air Force Academy from Rajlovac, by the airport&rsquo;s own account, then held open for the UN airlift of the siege, nearly 13,000 flights by the airport&rsquo;s count; today a civil airport beside EUFOR&rsquo;s headquarters at Camp Butmir, from which the 2nd Helicopter Squadron flies rescue and firefighting missions.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Sarajevo International Airport (Butmir) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Irish Air Corps bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/irish-air-corps\/\">Irish Air Corps page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/casement-aerodrome\/\"><span class=\"rk\">County Dublin (South Dublin)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Casement Aerodrome<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A British training field of the First World War, the Air Service&rsquo;s headquarters since 1922 and still the Air Corps&rsquo; only airfield: the Bremen left here on 12 April 1928 for the first east-to-west Atlantic crossing, Ireland&rsquo;s first jets arrived on 30 July 1956, and in 2025&ndash;2026 it received the C295s, the Falcon 6X and the Garda&rsquo;s Viking 400.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Casement Aerodrome page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Cyprus Air Command bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Cyprus flies its helicopters from Andreas Papandreou Air Base at Paphos; Nicosia&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/cyprus-air-command\/\">Cyprus Air Command page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/andreas-papandreou\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Paphos District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Andreas Papandreou<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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&rsquo;s Mi-35P gunships from 2002, and has hosted Greek F-16s again since March 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Andreas Papandreou page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/air-wing-of-the-armed-forces-of-malta\/\">Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/luqa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Luqa, island of Malta<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Luqa (Malta International Airport) &ndash; AFM Air Wing<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built in 1940 and the RAF&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Luqa (Malta International Airport) &ndash; AFM Air Wing page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Ukrainian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/ukrainian-air-force\/\">Ukrainian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/vasylkiv\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kyiv Oblast<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Vasylkiv<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An 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&rsquo;s MiG-29s; on 12 March 2022 the town&rsquo;s mayor said Russian missiles had left it &quot;completely destroyed&quot;.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Vasylkiv page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/myrhorod\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Poltava Oblast<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Myrhorod<\/span><span class=\"rp\">USAAF 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Myrhorod page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Russian Aerospace Forces bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Russia&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/russian-aerospace-forces\/\">Russian Aerospace Forces page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kubinka\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Moscow Oblast<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kubinka<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened in 1935 some 60 km west of Moscow and the air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kubinka page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lipetsk\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lipetsk Oblast<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lipetsk<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the Weimar Reichswehr secretly trained about 120 fighter pilots in 1926&ndash;1933, and the home of the Aerospace Forces&rsquo; 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Lipetsk page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Russian Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/russian-naval-aviation\/\">Russian Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/severomorsk-3\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Murmansk Oblast (Kola Peninsula)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Severomorsk-3<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&rsquo;s entire carrier aviation, the Su-33s of the 279th and the MiG-29KR\/KUBRs of the 100th, while Admiral Kuznetsov is non-operational.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Severomorsk-3 page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/yeysk\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Krasnodar Krai (Sea of Azov coast)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Yeysk<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A Sea of Azov airfield that served a military aviation institute in the Cold War and has been naval aviation&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Yeysk page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/air-force-and-air-defence-forces-of-the-republic-of-belarus\/\">Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/baranovichi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Brest Region (Brestskaya voblasts), Baranovichi<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Baranovichi<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built around 1950 for the Soviet 61st Fighter Aviation Regiment and a Tu-22 bomber base in the 1960s, it is Belarus&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Baranovichi page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/machulishchy\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Minsk Region (Minskaya voblasts), Minsk District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Machulishchy<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The air force&rsquo;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&ndash;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Machulishchy page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Moldovan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Moldova flies from one air base, M&#259;rcule&#537;ti, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/moldovan-air-force\/\">Moldovan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/marculesti\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Flore&#537;ti District, northern Moldova<\/span><span class=\"rh\">M&#259;rcule&#537;ti<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A Soviet fighter base from 1951 that flew four generations of Mikoyan fighters, Moldova&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the M&#259;rcule&#537;ti page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Georgian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/georgian-air-force\/\">Georgian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/marneuli\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kvemo Kartli<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Marneuli<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Georgian Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Marneuli page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Armenian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Armenia&rsquo;s military aviation is centred on Erebuni, which it shares with Russia&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/armenian-air-force\/\">Armenian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/erebuni\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Yerevan, 7 km south of the city centre<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Erebuni<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Armenia&rsquo;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&rsquo;s 3624th Air Base, whose 18 MiG-29s arrived in 1998&ndash;1999 by Wikipedia&rsquo;s count, under a treaty that runs to 2044.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Erebuni page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Azerbaijani Air Forces bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/azerbaijani-air-forces\/\">Azerbaijani Air Forces page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kurdamir\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kurdamir District (K&#252;rd&#601;mir rayonu), central Azerbaijan<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kurdamir<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kurdamir page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/peoples-liberation-army-air-force\/\">People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/jianqiao\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Hangzhou Jianqiao<\/span><span class=\"rp\">One of China&rsquo;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&rsquo;s airport from 1957 and a PLA Air Force base only since 29 December 2000.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Hangzhou Jianqiao page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/shek-kong\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, New Territories (Yuen Long District)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Shek Kong<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Begun in 1938 and finished in 1950 as RAF Sek Kong, home of Spitfires and Vampires and later of No. 28 Squadron&rsquo;s Wessex helicopters until November 1996; since the handover on 1 July 1997 the PLA Hong Kong Garrison&rsquo;s helicopter base, with the Hong Kong Aviation Club&rsquo;s light aircraft still flying at weekends.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Shek Kong page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Naval Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/peoples-liberation-army-naval-air-force\/\">People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Naval Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lingshui\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Hainan Province (Lingshui Li Autonomous County)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lingshui<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Lingshui page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Republic of China Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Taiwan&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/republic-of-china-air-force\/\">Republic of China Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/hualien\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Hualien County, Xincheng Township<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Hualien (Chiashan)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Taiwan&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Hualien (Chiashan) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/hsinchu\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Hsinchu City, North District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Hsinchu<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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&rsquo;s covert flights over the mainland; since 1997 Taiwan&rsquo;s only Mirage 2000-5 base.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Hsinchu page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/chiayi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Chiayi County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Chiayi<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 4th Wing&rsquo;s home since December 1948, a base for rotating US fighter squadrons from 1955 to 1968, and where Taiwan&rsquo;s first F-16V combat wing was commissioned on 18 November 2021; the Air Rescue Group&rsquo;s helicopters fly from here too.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Chiayi page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Japan Air Self-Defense Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Japan&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/japan-air-self-defense-force\/\">Japan Air Self-Defense Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/naha\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Okinawa Prefecture<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Naha<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Imperial Navy&rsquo;s Oroku airfield of 1933, a US Air Force fighter base until 1971 and now the JASDF&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Naha page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/chitose\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Hokkaido<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Chitose<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Japan&rsquo;s northern fighter base: a navy field from 1939, a US F-86 base until 1957 and home of the 2nd Air Wing&rsquo;s two F-15 squadrons and the government&rsquo;s Boeing 777s; its F-4EJs could not find Viktor Belenko&rsquo;s MiG-25 as it flew in low to Hakodate on 6 September 1976.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Chitose page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/japan-maritime-self-defense-force\/\">Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/atsugi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kanagawa Prefecture<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Atsugi (Naval Air Facility Atsugi)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Atsugi (Naval Air Facility Atsugi) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kanoya\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kagoshima Prefecture<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kanoya<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of the Imperial Navy&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kanoya page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Japan Ground Self-Defense Force aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/japan-ground-self-defense-force-aviation\/\">Japan Ground Self-Defense Force aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/akeno\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Mie Prefecture<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Camp Akeno (Akeno Air Field)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened by the Imperial Army in 1920 and its fighter pilots&rsquo; 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Camp Akeno (Akeno Air Field) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kisarazu\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Chiba Prefecture<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Camp Kisarazu (Kisarazu Air Field)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened in 1936 as an Imperial Navy bomber base, where Japan&rsquo;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&rsquo;s V-22s from 2020 until their move to Saga in 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Camp Kisarazu (Kisarazu Air Field) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Republic of Korea Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">South Korea&rsquo;s F-15Ks, F-35As and first KF-21s each fly from a single base &mdash; Daegu, Cheongju and Yecheon &mdash; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/republic-of-korea-air-force\/\">Republic of Korea Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/daegu\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Daegu Metropolitan City (Dong-gu)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Daegu<\/span><span class=\"rp\">K-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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Daegu page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cheongju\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Chungcheong Province (Chungcheongbuk-do), Cheongju<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cheongju<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened in 1978, a Phantom base for about 40 years and since 29 March 2019 South Korea&rsquo;s F-35A base, with the 151st and 152nd Squadrons of the 17th Fighter Wing and the air force&rsquo;s weapons school; the runways are shared with Cheongju International Airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cheongju page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sacheon\/\"><span class=\"rk\">South Gyeongsang Province (Gyeongsangnam-do), Sacheon<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Sacheon<\/span><span class=\"rp\">K-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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Sacheon page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Republic of Korea Navy aviation (Naval Air Command) bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">South Korea&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/republic-of-korea-navy-aviation\/\">Republic of Korea Navy aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/pohang\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Gyeongsang Province (Gyeongsangbuk-do), Pohang<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Pohang Naval<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Korean War&rsquo;s K-3, abandoned to North Korean troops on 13 August 1950, and since 16 July 1978 the headquarters of the navy&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Pohang Naval page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Korean People&rsquo;s Army Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/korean-peoples-army-air-force\/\">Korean People&rsquo;s Army Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/wonsan-kalma\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kangwon Province (Kangwon-do)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Wonsan Kalma Airport<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An 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&rsquo;s only international air festival in 2016 and the air force&rsquo;s 80th anniversary display on 28 November 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Wonsan Kalma Airport page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Indian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/indian-air-force\/\">Indian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ambala\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Haryana (Ambala district)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ambala Air Force Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">One of the oldest military airfields in South Asia, with an airstrip by 1919 and a permanent station from 1938; struck in Pakistan&rsquo;s opening raid of 3 December 1971, and since September 2019 the home of No. 17 Squadron, the IAF&rsquo;s first Rafale squadron.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ambala Air Force Station page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/hindan\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Uttar Pradesh (Ghaziabad district)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Hindan Air Force Station<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where India&rsquo;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&rsquo;s best-known airlifts from Nepal in 2015 to Kabul in 2021. A Hunter and Myst&#232;re base after the 1965 war, it has held the Air Force Day parade since 2006.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Hindan Air Force Station page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/gwalior\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior district)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Gwalior Air Force Station (Maharajpur)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;s first operational use of laser-guided bombs in Kargil in 1999.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Gwalior Air Force Station (Maharajpur) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Indian Naval Air Arm bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/indian-naval-air-arm\/\">Indian Naval Air Arm page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ins-hansa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Goa<\/span><span class=\"rh\">INS Hansa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Commissioned 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s older civil airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the INS Hansa page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ins-garuda\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kerala<\/span><span class=\"rh\">INS Garuda<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where 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&rsquo;s aviation training centre and, since 6 March 2024, home of INAS 334, its first MH-60R squadron.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the INS Garuda page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Army Aviation Corps (India) bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/army-aviation-corps-india\/\">Army Aviation Corps page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/nashik-gandhinagar\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Maharashtra (Nashik district)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Gandhinagar, Nashik<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&rsquo;s first woman combat aviator in 2022.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Gandhinagar, Nashik page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Pakistan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Pakistan flies its J-10CEs from Minhas, beside the factory at Kamra that builds the JF-17, runs its Combat Commanders&rsquo; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/pakistan-air-force\/\">Pakistan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/mushaf\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Punjab (Sargodha District)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">PAF Base Mushaf<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Sargodha&rsquo;s air base, commissioned in 1959: the first target of India&rsquo;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&rsquo; School since 1976, and among the bases India said it struck on 10 May 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the PAF Base Mushaf page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/minhas\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Punjab (Attock District), at Kamra<\/span><span class=\"rh\">PAF Base Minhas<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 1942 airfield at Kamra beside the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, where the JF-17 is built; named after Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, it received Pakistan&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the PAF Base Minhas page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/masroor\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Sindh (Karachi, Mauripur)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">PAF Base Masroor<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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&rsquo;s account, and home of 32 Tactical Attack Wing with JF-17s and the last Mirage IIIs.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the PAF Base Masroor page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Pakistan Naval Air Arm bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/pakistan-naval-air-arm\/\">Pakistan Naval Air Arm page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/pns-mehran\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Sindh (Karachi, Faisal Cantonment)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">PNS Mehran<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The navy&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the PNS Mehran page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Pakistan Army Aviation Corps bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/pakistan-army-aviation-corps\/\">Pakistan Army Aviation Corps page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/dhamial\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Punjab (Rawalpindi)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Qasim Army Aviation Base (Dhamial)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 1941 parachute training field reopened on 15 October 1962 as the Pakistan Army&rsquo;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&rsquo; headquarters and overhauls its Mi-17, Bell 412 and Cobra fleets.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Qasim Army Aviation Base (Dhamial) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Bangladesh Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/bangladesh-air-force\/\">Bangladesh Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bashar\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Dhaka Division, Dhaka (Tejgaon)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">BAF Base Bashar<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built from 1941 as Tejgaon, Dhaka&rsquo;s first airfield: the Pakistan Air Force&rsquo;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&rsquo;s transport and helicopter base.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the BAF Base Bashar page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ak-khandker\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Dhaka Division, Dhaka (Kurmitola, Dhaka Cantonment)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">BAF Base Bir Uttam A. K. Khandker<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The fighter base, on the military side of Dhaka&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the BAF Base Bir Uttam A. K. Khandker page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Sri Lanka Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/sri-lanka-air-force\/\">Sri Lanka Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/katunayake\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Western Province, Gampaha District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">SLAF Base Katunayake<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by the RAF in 1944 as RAF Negombo and the air force&rsquo;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&rsquo;s light aircraft in 2007, and where the first Kfir rebuilt to C12 standard flew on 11 June 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the SLAF Base Katunayake page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/china-bay\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Eastern Province, Trincomalee District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">SLAF Academy China Bay<\/span><span class=\"rp\">RAF 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&ndash;2009, the base where every Sri Lanka Air Force pilot learns to fly.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the SLAF Academy China Bay page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Afghan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Afghanistan&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Islamic Emirate. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 8 bases, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/afghan-air-force\/\">Afghan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bagram\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Parwan Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bagram<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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&ndash;2 July 2021, held by the Taliban since 15 August 2021 and, according to Pakistani officials, struck by Pakistan on 1 March 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Bagram page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Kazakh Air Defense Forces bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Kazakhstan kept four fast-jet bases after independence &mdash; Zhetigen, Shymkent, Taldykorgan and Karaganda &mdash; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/kazakh-air-defense-forces\/\">Kazakh Air Defense Forces page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/taldykorgan\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Jetisu Region (Zhetysu), since 2022; Almaty Region before<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Taldykorgan<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 604th Air Base, sharing a 3,000-metre runway with the city&rsquo;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&rsquo;s first four Su-30SMs were handed over on 1 May 2015.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Taldykorgan page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/karaganda\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Karaganda Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Karaganda (Sary-Arka)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;s Su-30SMs crashed near the airport on 25 February 2026, both pilots ejecting.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Karaganda (Sary-Arka) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/uzbekistan-air-and-air-defence-forces\/\">Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/karshi-khanabad\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Qashqadaryo Region, east of Qarshi<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Karshi-Khanabad<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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 &mdash; 187 dead by the government&rsquo;s count, several hundred to 1,500 by other estimates &mdash; and Tashkent answered Western criticism by telling the Americans to leave.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Karshi-Khanabad page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Turkmen Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/turkmen-air-force\/\">Turkmen Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/akdepe\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Ahal Region, on the north-western edge of Ashgabat<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Akdepe (Ak-Tepe)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The military airfield on the north-western edge of Ashgabat and the air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Akdepe (Ak-Tepe) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Kyrgyz Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Kyrgyzstan shares Kant with Russia&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/kyrgyz-air-force\/\">Kyrgyz Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kant\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Chuy Region (Ysyk-Ata District)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kant<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Chuy valley airfield where the Frunze school&rsquo;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&rsquo;s 999th Air Base has flown Su-25s and Mi-8s from it since 23 October 2003.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kant page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Tajik Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Tajikistan&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/tajik-air-force\/\">Tajik Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ayni\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Districts of Republican Subordination (Hisor District)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ayni<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&rsquo;s withdrawal was reported complete in October 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ayni page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Vietnam Air Defence &ndash; Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Vietnam flies from former French and American bases such as Bi&#234;n H&#242;a and from the North&rsquo;s wartime MiG fields such as K&#233;p and Y&#234;n B&#225;i; the military side of Ph&#250;c Y&#234;n 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/vietnam-air-defence-air-force\/\">Vietnam Air Defence &ndash; Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bien-hoa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">&#272;&#7891;ng Nai province, about 25 km north-east of Ho Chi Minh City<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bi&#234;n H&#242;a<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Bi&#234;n H&#242;a page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kep\/\"><span class=\"rk\">B&#7855;c Giang area, about 60 km north-east of Hanoi (B&#7855;c Ninh province after the 2025 merger of provinces)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">K&#233;p<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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&ndash;1969; Yak-130s trained here from October 2023, and Wikipedia names Regiment 927 as its resident unit.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the K&#233;p page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Lao People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/lao-peoples-liberation-army-air-force\/\">Lao People&rsquo;s Liberation Army Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/long-tieng\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Xaisomboun Province (Longchaeng district)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Long Tieng (Lima Site 20A)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by the CIA from 1962 as the headquarters of Vang Pao&rsquo;s Hmong army: Air America, the US Air Force&rsquo;s Ravens and the Royal Lao Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Long Tieng (Lima Site 20A) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Cambodian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Cambodia&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-cambodian-air-force\/\">Royal Cambodian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/pochentong\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Phnom Penh<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Pochentong<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where Cambodian military flying began in 1954 and where the air force headquarters still stands: Base A&#233;rienne 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Pochentong page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Thai Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-thai-air-force\/\">Royal Thai Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/don-muang\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bangkok<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Thailand&rsquo;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&rsquo;s transport and royal flight squadrons, sharing two runways with Don Mueang International Airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/korat\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nakhon Ratchasima Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built in 1955, the home of the USAF 388th Tactical Fighter Wing&rsquo;s F-105s and F-4s from 1966 to 1975, and since 1988 Thailand&rsquo;s F-16 base, where Wing 1 flies the F-16A\/B and the annual Cope Tiger exercise is held.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/udorn\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Udon Thani Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Air America&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Alpha Jets share its runway with Udon Thani International Airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Thai Naval Air Division bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-thai-naval-air-division\/\">Royal Thai Naval Air Division page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/u-tapao\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Rayong Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Royal Thai Navy&rsquo;s main air base and the division&rsquo;s headquarters, built by the United States in 1965&ndash;1966 as the main B-52 base of the Vietnam War, where U-Tapao&rsquo;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&rsquo;s two C295s.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Myanmar Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Myanmar&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/myanmar-air-force\/\">Myanmar Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/meiktila\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Mandalay Region, Meiktila Township<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Meiktila<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 1942 airfield that was the lifeline of a besieged British-Indian division in March 1945, one of the Burmese Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Meiktila page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Malaysian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-malaysian-air-force\/\">Royal Malaysian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/butterworth\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Penang (Pulau Pinang), Seberang Perai<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RMAF Butterworth<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened by the RAF in October 1941 and captured by the Japanese that December, Australia&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Hornet base and the headquarters of the Five Power Defence Arrangements&rsquo; Integrated Area Defence System.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RMAF Butterworth page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kuantan\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Pahang<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RMAF Kuantan<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An 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&rsquo;s MiG-29Ns until 2017, and the runway from which an F\/A-18D took off before it crashed on 21 August 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RMAF Kuantan page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Malaysian Navy aviation (Fleet Air Arm) bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Malaysia&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-malaysian-navy-aviation\/\">Royal Malaysian Navy aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lumut\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lumut, Manjung District, Perak<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Lumut Naval Base (KD Rajawali)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Royal Malaysian Navy&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Lumut Naval Base (KD Rajawali) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Republic of Singapore Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/republic-of-singapore-air-force\/\">Republic of Singapore Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/tengah\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Western Water Catchment, West Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Tengah<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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&rsquo;s first jet base from 1969 and today home of three F-16 squadrons, being enlarged to take the F-35.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Tengah page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/paya-lebar\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Paya Lebar, North-East and East Regions<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Paya Lebar<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Singapore&rsquo;s international airport from 20 August 1955 until Changi took over in 1981, a Concorde destination, then the RSAF&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Paya Lebar page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Indonesian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Indonesia flies its fighters from Iswahjudi, Pekanbaru and Makassar and its transports from Halim Perdanakusuma in Jakarta, and closed Kemayoran, Jakarta&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/indonesian-air-force\/\">Indonesian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/halim-perdanakusuma\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Jakarta (East Jakarta)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/iswahjudi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">East Java (Magetan Regency, Maospati)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Iswahjudi Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened by the Dutch colonial army in May 1940, home from 1961 of Indonesia&rsquo;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 &mdash; two of which met US Navy Hornets near Bawean Island on 3 July 2003.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Iswahjudi Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sultan-hasanuddin\/\"><span class=\"rk\">South Sulawesi (Maros Regency, near Makassar)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Sultan Hasanuddin Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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&rsquo;s Su-27 and Su-30 Flankers beside Makassar&rsquo;s international airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Sultan Hasanuddin Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Indonesian Naval Aviation (Puspenerbal) bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/indonesian-naval-aviation\/\">Indonesian Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/juanda\/\"><span class=\"rk\">East Java (Sidoarjo Regency)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Naval Air Station Juanda<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by the navy in 1960&ndash;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&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Naval Air Station Juanda page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Philippine Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/philippine-air-force\/\">Philippine Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/villamor\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Pasay, Metro Manila (National Capital Region)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Colonel Jesus Villamor<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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&rsquo;s headquarters and home of the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing, sharing the runways of Ninoy Aquino International Airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Colonel Jesus Villamor page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/basa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Floridablanca, Pampanga (Central Luzon)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cesar Basa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by the US Army Air Forces before the Pacific war and renamed in 1948 after Lt. C&#233;sar 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cesar Basa page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Brunei Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Brunei flies everything from Rimba, beside Brunei International Airport, which in 1974 replaced the old Japanese-built airfield at Berakas; British forces&rsquo; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-brunei-air-force\/\">Royal Brunei Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/rimba\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Brunei-Muara District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Rimba Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Rimba Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Israeli Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/israeli-air-force\/\">Israeli Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ramat-david\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Northern District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ramat David Airbase<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An RAF station that Egyptian Spitfires raided on 22 May 1948 believing it already Israeli, the birthplace of Israel&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ramat David Airbase page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/hatzerim\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Southern District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Hatzerim Airbase<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Declared 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Hatzerim Airbase page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/nevatim\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Southern District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Nevatim Airbase<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built in 1980&ndash;1983 to replace the bases given up in Sinai, Israel&rsquo;s F-35I base since the first two Adirs landed on 12 December 2016, the base hit hardest by Iran&rsquo;s missiles in April and October 2024, and since 28 May 2026 the home of 46 Squadron&rsquo;s KC-46A tankers.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Nevatim Airbase page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Iran&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/islamic-republic-of-iran-air-force\/\">Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/mehrabad\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Tehran Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Mehrabad (Tehran Mehrabad International Airport)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Tehran&rsquo;s domestic airport and, by English Wikipedia&rsquo;s account, the air force&rsquo;s largest base, where Iran&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Mehrabad (Tehran Mehrabad International Airport) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/nojeh\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Hamadan Province (Kabudarahang County)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Shahid Nojeh (Hamadan)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Shahid Nojeh (Hamadan) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Iraqi Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/iraqi-air-force\/\">Iraqi Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/balad\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Saladin Governorate (Salah ad-Din)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Balad<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built in 1983 as Al-Bakr Air Base for the war with Iran, then Joint Base Balad, where US troops nicknamed it &ldquo;Mortaritaville&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s F-16IQs since 13 July 2015, supported by US contractors.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Balad page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Syrian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Syria&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/syrian-air-force\/\">Syrian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/shayrat\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Homs Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Shayrat<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Shayrat page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Jordanian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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&ndash;Haifa oil pipeline. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all ten airfields, active and closed, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-jordanian-air-force\/\">Royal Jordanian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/king-hussein-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Mafraq Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">King Hussein<\/span><span class=\"rp\">RAF Mafraq until the British left on 31 May 1957, then Jordan&rsquo;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&rsquo;s pilots learn to fly and the first female cadets graduated in 2020.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the King Hussein page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Lebanese Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Lebanon flies from four bases &mdash; Rayak in the Bekaa, where the air force was founded in 1949, Beirut airport, Hamat near Batroun and Kleyate in the north &mdash; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/lebanese-air-force\/\">Lebanese Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/rayak\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Beqaa Governorate (Zahle District)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Rayak<\/span><span class=\"rp\">First 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&rsquo;s account, home to the Gazelle and training squadrons, the aviation and technical schools and the air force museum.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Rayak page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Saudi Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-saudi-air-force\/\">Royal Saudi Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/king-abdulaziz-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Eastern Province (Dhahran)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">King Abdulaziz<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by the United States in 1945&ndash;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the King Abdulaziz page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/king-khalid-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Asir Province (Khamis Mushait)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">King Khalid<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Royal Saudi Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the King Khalid page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>United Arab Emirates Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-arab-emirates-air-force\/\">United Arab Emirates Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/al-minhad\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Emirate of Dubai<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Al Minhad<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&rsquo;s Camp Mirage until it closed in a landing-rights row on 3 November 2010, Australia&rsquo;s Middle East headquarters since 2008 and the RAF&rsquo;s 906 Expeditionary Air Wing, with permanent UK quarters, Donnelly Lines, opened in March 2024.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Al Minhad page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Qatar Emiri Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/qatar-emiri-air-force\/\">Qatar Emiri Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/doha-international-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Doha (Ad Dawhah municipality)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Doha International<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Qatar&rsquo;s only international airport from 1959 to 2014 and the first home of the air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Doha International page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Bahraini Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-bahraini-air-force\/\">Royal Bahraini Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/isa-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Southern Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Isa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built for Bahrain&rsquo;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&rsquo;s first air-to-air kills on 1 April 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Isa page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Kuwait Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/kuwait-air-force\/\">Kuwait Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ahmad-al-jaber\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kuwait<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ahmad al-Jaber<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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&ndash;1993 and hosts the US 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ahmad al-Jaber page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Air Force of Oman bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-air-force-of-oman\/\">Royal Air Force of Oman page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/thumrait\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Dhofar Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RAFO Thumrait<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The desert waypoint British officers called Midway in the Dhofar war, then the Sultan&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RAFO Thumrait page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/masirah\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Masirah Island, South Al Sharqiyah Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RAFO Masirah<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RAFO Masirah page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Yemeni Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Yemen&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/yemeni-air-force\/\">Yemeni Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/al-anad\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Lahij Governorate (Tuban district)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Al Anad<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Al Anad page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Australian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-australian-air-force\/\">Royal Australian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/williamtown\/\"><span class=\"rk\">New South Wales<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RAAF Base Williamtown<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RAAF Base Williamtown page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/amberley\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Queensland<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RAAF Base Amberley<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened in June 1940 near Ipswich and a major US Army Air Forces base in 1942&ndash;1943, then the home of the F-111 from 1973 to 2010, today what the Air Force calls Defence&rsquo;s largest operational air base, with Super Hornets, Growlers, KC-30A tankers and C-17A and C-27J transports.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RAAF Base Amberley page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/point-cook\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Victoria<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RAAF Base Point Cook<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the Central Flying School made the first Australian military flight on 1 March 1914 and the RAAF&rsquo;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&rsquo;s heritage aircraft.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RAAF Base Point Cook page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Fleet Air Arm (Royal Australian Navy) bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/fleet-air-arm-ran\/\">Fleet Air Arm page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/hmas-albatross\/\"><span class=\"rk\">New South Wales, City of Shoalhaven (near Nowra)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station Nowra)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;s only air station, home of every Fleet Air Arm squadron from the MH-60R units to 822X&rsquo;s drones, and of the Fleet Air Arm Museum.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station Nowra) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Australian Army Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/australian-army-aviation\/\">Australian Army Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/oakey\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Queensland (Toowoomba Region)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Oakey Army Aviation Centre<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Oakey Army Aviation Centre page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal New Zealand Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-new-zealand-air-force\/\">Royal New Zealand Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ohakea\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Manawat&#363;-Whanganui (Manawat&#363; District, near Bulls)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RNZAF Base Ohakea<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built from 1937 for Wellington bombers that went to Britain instead, the home of New Zealand&rsquo;s strike jets until the air combat force was disbanded there on 13 December 2001; today the RNZAF&rsquo;s busiest base, with No. 5 Squadron&rsquo;s P-8A Poseidons, the NH90 and A109 helicopters, T-6C pilot training and King Air 350s.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RNZAF Base Ohakea page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/whenuapai\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Auckland<\/span><span class=\"rh\">RNZAF Base Auckland (Whenuapai)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of No. 40 Squadron since 1943 and Auckland&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Seasprites flown by No. 6 Squadron.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the RNZAF Base Auckland (Whenuapai) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Papua New Guinea Defence Force Air Transport Wing bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Papua New Guinea keeps every military aircraft at Jackson&rsquo;s Field, Port Moresby&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/papua-new-guinea-defence-force-air-transport-wing\/\">Papua New Guinea Defence Force Air Transport Wing page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/jacksons\/\"><span class=\"rk\">National Capital District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Jackson&rsquo;s Field (Port Moresby International Airport)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Jackson&rsquo;s Field (Port Moresby International Airport) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Egyptian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/egyptian-air-force\/\">Egyptian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cairo-west\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Giza Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cairo West<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A wartime RAF landing ground opened in 1942 as Kilo 26, struck in Israel&rsquo;s opening attack on 5 June 1967 and the home of 222 Fighter Regiment&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cairo West page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/almaza\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cairo Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Almaza<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where military aviation in Egypt began, with Africa&rsquo;s first air meeting in February 1910 and the arrival of the air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Almaza page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Algerian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/algerian-air-force\/\">Algerian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/boufarik\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Blida Province (wilaya of Blida)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Boufarik<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A French military airfield until 1962, where English Wikipedia says de Gaulle landed from Gibraltar in 1943, and today, in English Wikipedia&rsquo;s words, the home of the air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Boufarik page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/tafraoui\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Oran Province (wilaya of Oran)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Tafraoui<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The French navy&rsquo;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 &#201;cole sup&#233;rieure de l&rsquo;Air, where Algeria trains its pilots, engineers and technicians.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Tafraoui page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Moroccan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 Mekn&#232;s and La&#226;youne; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-moroccan-air-force\/\">Royal Moroccan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ben-guerir\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Marrakech-Safi<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ben Guerir<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by the United States from 1951 for Strategic Air Command bombers and left in 1963, then NASA&rsquo;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&rsquo;s TB2 and Ak&#305;nc&#305; drones.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ben Guerir page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sidi-slimane\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Rabat-Sal&#233;-K&#233;nitra<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Sidi Slimane<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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&rsquo;s fifth base, where the US Air Force contracted two F-16 Block 72 simulators in August 2026, due by April 2029.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Sidi Slimane page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Tunisian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/tunisian-air-force\/\">Tunisian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bizerte-sidi-ahmed\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bizerte Governorate<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&rsquo;s principal base, home of 15 Squadron&rsquo;s F-5E\/F Tiger IIs and 32 Squadron&rsquo;s AB205 helicopters according to defenceWeb, and where the United States hands over its surplus Hercules.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Libyan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Libya&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/libyan-air-force\/\">Libyan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/al-watiya\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nuqat al Khams District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Al-Watiya<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Al-Watiya page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/benina\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Benghazi District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Benina<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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&rsquo;s Operation Dignity from May 2014; today the main air base of the Libyan National Army, shared with Benina International Airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Benina page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Sudanese Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Sudan&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/sudanese-air-force\/\">Sudanese Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/wadi-seidna\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Khartoum State<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Wadi Seidna<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A Second World War ferry field where the USAAF&rsquo;s 46th Ferrying Squadron was activated on 2 December 1942, then one of the air force&rsquo;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&rsquo;s last C-130H on 21 March 2024.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Wadi Seidna page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>South Sudan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/south-sudan-air-force\/\">South Sudan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/juba\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Central Equatoria<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Juba International Airport<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Cleared as an airfield in 1929 and today South Sudan&rsquo;s main gateway, where the air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Juba International Airport page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Ethiopian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/ethiopian-air-force\/\">Ethiopian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/harar-meda\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Oromia Region (Bishoftu, formerly Debre Zeyit)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Harar Meda<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Ethiopian Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Harar Meda page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/dire-dawa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Dire Dawa (chartered city)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Dire Dawa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Ethiopia&rsquo;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&rsquo;s MiG-21s and, in 2006&ndash;2007, to American AC-130 gunships, it shares its runway with Dire Dawa International Airport, and its current units are not published.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Dire Dawa page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Eritrean Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/eritrean-air-force\/\">Eritrean Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/asmara\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Central Region (Maekel)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Asmara<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by Italy in 1922 as a military airfield and a staging base for the 1935&ndash;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Asmara page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Somali Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/somali-air-force\/\">Somali Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/mogadishu\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Banaadir (Mogadishu)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Aden Adde International Airport (Mogadishu)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened in 1928 as Aeroporto di Mogadiscio-Petrella, according to Wikipedia, and home of the old air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Aden Adde International Airport (Mogadishu) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Kenya Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/kenya-air-force\/\">Kenya Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/laikipia\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Laikipia County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Laikipia<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An RAF station, RAF Nanyuki, by 1942 and opened as Kenya&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Laikipia page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/moi-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Nairobi County<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Moi<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The former RAF Eastleigh, the RAF&rsquo;s main base in East Africa and Nairobi&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Moi page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Uganda People&rsquo;s Defence Forces Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/uganda-air-force\/\">Uganda People&rsquo;s Defence Forces Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/entebbe\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Wakiso District, Central Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Entebbe<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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&ndash;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Entebbe page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Rwandan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/rwandan-air-force\/\">Rwandan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kigali-kanombe\/\"><span class=\"rk\">City of Kigali (Kanombe, eastern Kigali)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kigali International Airport (Kanombe)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kigali International Airport (Kanombe) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Nigerian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/nigerian-air-force\/\">Nigerian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/makurdi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Benue State<\/span><span class=\"rh\">NAF Base Makurdi<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of Tactical Air Command and Nigeria&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the NAF Base Makurdi page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kaduna\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kaduna State<\/span><span class=\"rh\">NAF Base Kaduna<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the NAF Base Kaduna page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Ghana Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/ghana-air-force\/\">Ghana Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/accra\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Greater Accra Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Air Force Base Accra<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The military side of Ghana&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Air Force Base Accra page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/takoradi\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Western Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Air Force Base Takoradi<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Where the RAF assembled Hurricanes, Blenheims and Spitfires from July 1940 and flew them across Africa to Egypt, the Ghana Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Air Force Base Takoradi page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Senegalese Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Senegal flies from Ouakam, its headquarters on the military side of Dakar&rsquo;s old airport and a French air base from 1920 until July 2025, and trains its pilots at Thi&#232;s, the oldest air base in French West Africa by APS&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/senegalese-air-force\/\">Senegalese Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/thies\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Thi&#232;s Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Thi&#232;s<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Created 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 S&#233;n&#233;gal.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Thi&#232;s page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Air Force of Ivory Coast bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Ivory Coast flies from three airfields it shares with civil airports &mdash; Abidjan, home of the headquarters and transport group, Bouak&#233; and Korhogo &mdash; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/ivorian-air-force\/\">Air Force of Ivory Coast page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/abidjan-port-bouet\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Abidjan Autonomous District (Port-Bou&#235;t commune)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Abidjan (Port-Bou&#235;t)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The military side of F&#233;lix Houphou&#235;t-Boigny International Airport and the air force&rsquo;s headquarters, home of the transport group&rsquo;s An-26Bs and Mi-8Ps; French and Ivorian forces fought for the airport after the Bouak&#233; strike of November 2004, and the French camp beside it, there since 1979, was handed back in February 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Abidjan (Port-Bou&#235;t) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Malian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Mali&rsquo;s air force is centred on Air Base 101 at S&#233;nou, beside Bamako&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/malian-air-force\/\">Malian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-101-senou\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bamako District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Air Base 101 S&#233;nou (Bamako)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The military side of Modibo Keita International Airport and the air force&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Africa Corps said it defended the airport on 25 April 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Air Base 101 S&#233;nou (Bamako) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Burkina Faso Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Burkina Faso&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/burkina-faso-air-force\/\">Burkina Faso Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ouagadougou\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kadiogo Province, Ouagadougou<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ouagadougou (Base A&#233;rienne 511)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The military side of Thomas Sankara International Airport and the air force&rsquo;s home since 1964, where its MiG-17s ended their days on the apron; today Base A&#233;rienne 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ouagadougou (Base A&#233;rienne 511) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Niger Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Niger flies from Air Base 101 beside Niamey&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/niger-air-force\/\">Niger Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-201-agadez\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Agadez Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Air Base 201 Agadez<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A Nigerien air base on the edge of Agadez&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Air Base 201 Agadez page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Mauritania Islamic Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Mauritania&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/mauritania-islamic-air-force\/\">Mauritania Islamic Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/atar\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Adrar Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Atar<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Atar page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Cameroon Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Cameroon&rsquo;s air force flies from three main bases named by Military Africa &mdash; Yaound&#233;, Douala and Garoua &mdash; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/cameroon-air-force\/\">Cameroon Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-301-garoua\/\"><span class=\"rk\">North Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Garoua (Base A&#233;rienne 301)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Base A&#233;rienne 301, the air force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Garoua (Base A&#233;rienne 301) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>South African Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/south-african-air-force\/\">South African Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/waterkloof\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Gauteng (City of Tshwane, south of Pretoria)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Air Force Base Waterkloof<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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&rsquo;s presidential Boeing BBJ &ldquo;Inkwazi&rdquo;, 28 Squadron&rsquo;s C-130BZ Hercules and the Africa Aerospace and Defence show, and scene of the 2013 Gupta wedding landing.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Air Force Base Waterkloof page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/makhado\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Limpopo<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Air Force Base Makhado<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened on 14 October 1987 as AFB Louis Trichardt and renamed on 7 November 2003, the SAAF&rsquo;s most northern base and what defenceWeb calls its &ldquo;fighter town&rdquo;: 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Air Force Base Makhado page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/swartkop\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Gauteng (Valhalla, Centurion, City of Tshwane)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Air Force Base Swartkop (Air Force Mobile Deployment Wing)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">South Africa&rsquo;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&rsquo;s helicopters and the museum&rsquo;s annual air show.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Air Force Base Swartkop (Air Force Mobile Deployment Wing) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>National Air Force of Angola bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/national-air-force-of-angola\/\">National Air Force of Angola page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/menongue\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cubango Province (Cuando Cubango until 2024)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Menongue<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by the Portuguese Air Force in 1973 as an auxiliary base for the colonial war, the airfield from which MiG-23s supported FAPLA&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Menongue page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">The Congolese air force has its headquarters at Ndolo in Kinshasa and its flying and technical schools at Kamina, Belgium&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/air-force-of-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo\/\">Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/kamina\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Haut-Lomami Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Kamina<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by Belgium from 1952, with NATO funding according to English Wikipedia, as a colonial air and paratroop base in Katanga, it was the UN&rsquo;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&rsquo;s flying and technical schools and the 2nd Tactical Air Group here, but how much flying it now sees is not published.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Kamina page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Air Force of Zimbabwe bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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&rsquo;s international airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all five bases is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/air-force-of-zimbabwe\/\">Air Force of Zimbabwe page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/thornhill\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Midlands Province, near Gweru<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Josiah Tungamirai Air Force Base (Thornhill), Gweru<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Josiah Tungamirai Air Force Base (Thornhill), Gweru page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/manyame\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Harare, beside Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Manyame Air Force Base (New Sarum), Harare<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Manyame Air Force Base (New Sarum), Harare page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Air Arm Command (Botswana) bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Botswana flies almost all its aircraft from one base, Thebephatshwa near Molepolole, with its VIP Flight at Gaborone&rsquo;s airport and two squadrons at Francistown. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all three bases is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/air-arm-command-botswana\/\">Air Arm Command page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/thebephatshwa\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Kweneng District, near Molepolole<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Thebephatshwa<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built by mostly foreign contractors between 1992 and 1996 in the multi-stage &ldquo;Eagle&rdquo; project, with aircraft shelters and ordnance storage, Botswana&rsquo;s only full air base is home to six of the air arm&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Thebephatshwa page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Namibian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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&rsquo;s Eros, is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/namibian-air-force\/\">Namibian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/grootfontein\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Otjozondjupa Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Grootfontein Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A 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&rsquo;s floods in 2014, and the first Y-9 transports ever exported were handed over here on 16 December 2024.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Grootfontein Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Brazilian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Brazil flies its Gripens from An&#225;polis, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/brazilian-air-force\/\">Brazilian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/anapolis\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Goi&#225;s<\/span><span class=\"rh\">An&#225;polis Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built from 1970 to defend the new capital and operational on 23 August 1972 as Brazil&rsquo;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 Bras&#237;lia on 24 February 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the An&#225;polis Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/santa-cruz-rj\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Rio de Janeiro<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Santa Cruz Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Santa Cruz Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/natal\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Rio Grande do Norte (Parnamirim)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Natal Air Force Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Parnamirim 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 A&#233;reo, 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&rsquo;s multinational debut in 2024.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Natal Air Force Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/pirassununga\/\"><span class=\"rk\">S&#227;o Paulo<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Brazilian Air Force Academy, Pirassununga<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Brazilian Air Force Academy, Pirassununga page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Brazilian Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Every squadron of the For&#231;a Aeronaval flies from S&#227;o Pedro da Aldeia, Brazil&rsquo;s only naval jet base, while the stations of the first naval air arm at Ponta do Gale&#227;o and Florian&#243;polis 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/brazilian-naval-aviation\/\">Brazilian Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/sao-pedro-da-aldeia\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Rio de Janeiro<\/span><span class=\"rh\">S&#227;o Pedro da Aldeia Naval<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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 For&#231;a Aeronaval flies from its 2,402-metre runway, among them the AF-1 Skyhawks of VF-1, Brazil&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the S&#227;o Pedro da Aldeia Naval page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Brazilian Army Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Brazilian Army Aviation flies from its own aerodrome at Taubat&#233; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/brazilian-army-aviation\/\">Brazilian Army Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/taubate\/\"><span class=\"rk\">S&#227;o Paulo<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Taubat&#233; Army Aviation Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The army-run aerodrome in S&#227;o 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&rsquo;s people, and where the first of 12 new UH-60M Black Hawks was presented on 15 December 2025.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Taubat&#233; Army Aviation Base page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Argentine Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Argentina&rsquo;s F-16s fly from R&#237;o 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/argentine-air-force\/\">Argentine Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/tandil\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Buenos Aires Province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Tandil (VI Air Brigade)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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 Juli&#225;n and R&#237;o 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Tandil (VI Air Brigade) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/marambio\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Marambio (Seymour) Island, Antarctic Peninsula (within the sector Argentina claims; claims are held in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Marambio Base<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Air Force&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Marambio Base page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/el-palomar\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Buenos Aires Province (Greater Buenos Aires)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">El Palomar (I Air Brigade)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the El Palomar (I Air Brigade) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Argentine Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Comandante Espora near Bah&#237;a Blanca is the main base and headquarters, Punta Indio has the school, Almirante Zar at Trelew the Orions according to Wikipedia, and R&#237;o 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/argentine-naval-aviation\/\">Argentine Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/comandante-espora\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Buenos Aires Province (Bah&#237;a Blanca)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Comandante Espora Naval<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The main base and headquarters of Argentine Naval Aviation since 16 June 1939, near Bah&#237;a Blanca, and home of the Second Naval Fighter and Attack Squadron, whose Super &#201;tendards flew the Exocet attacks of 1982 on HMS Sheffield and the Atlantic Conveyor from R&#237;o Grande; the Navy&rsquo;s last S-2T Tracker was retired here on 2 December 2025, and its Sea Kings still fly to Antarctica every summer.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Comandante Espora Naval page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Argentine Army Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/argentine-army-aviation\/\">Argentine Army Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/campo-de-mayo\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Buenos Aires (San Miguel)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Campo de Mayo Military<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The army&rsquo;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&ndash;1977.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Campo de Mayo Military page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Chilean Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/chilean-air-force\/\">Chilean Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/los-condores\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Tarapac&#225; Region (Regi&#243;n de Tarapac&#225;)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Los C&#243;ndores<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The I Air Brigade&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Los C&#243;ndores page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/cerro-moreno\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Antofagasta Region (Regi&#243;n de Antofagasta)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cerro Moreno<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The V Air Brigade&rsquo;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&rsquo;s multinational air exercise, which brought six air forces here from 29 June to 12 July 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cerro Moreno page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/chabunco\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region (Regi&#243;n de Magallanes y de la Ant&#225;rtica Chilena)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Chabunco<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The air force side of Punta Arenas airport on the Strait of Magellan, home of the IV Air Brigade, Grupo 12&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Chabunco page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Chilean Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Chilean Naval Aviation flies from its own base at Conc&#243;n, which replaced El Belloto in 1987&ndash;1991 and is now being opened to airlines as Vi&#241;a 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/chilean-naval-aviation\/\">Chilean Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/concon\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Valpara&#237;so Region (Regi&#243;n de Valpara&#237;so)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Conc&#243;n Naval (Vi&#241;a del Mar Airport)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The Chilean Navy&rsquo;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 Vi&#241;a del Mar Airport, and a US$43.6 million commercial airport is being built on the Navy&rsquo;s land.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Conc&#243;n Naval (Vi&#241;a del Mar Airport) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Peruvian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 A&#233;reo 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/peruvian-air-force\/\">Peruvian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/la-joya\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Arequipa Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">La Joya<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Peru&rsquo;s Mirage 2000 base since the first four arrived in 1986, where Escuadr&#243;n A&#233;reo 412 &ldquo;Halcones&rdquo; of Grupo A&#233;reo 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the La Joya page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/talara\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Piura Region<\/span><span class=\"rh\">El Pato (Talara)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Home of Grupo A&#233;reo No. 11 for more than 70 years according to Zona Militar, Peru&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the El Pato (Talara) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Colombian Aerospace Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 Bogot&#225;&rsquo;s El Dorado airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 12 bases is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/colombian-aerospace-force\/\">Colombian Aerospace Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/palanquero\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cundinamarca (Puerto Salgar)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Palanquero (Captain Germ&#225;n Olano Moreno)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Chosen during the Leticia crisis because it lies in the middle of the country and inaugurated on 27 August 1933, Colombia&rsquo;s fighter base since the Sabres of 1956 and home of the Kfirs of Escuadr&#243;n 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Palanquero (Captain Germ&#225;n Olano Moreno) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/apiay\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Meta (Villavicencio)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Apiay (Captain Luis F. G&#243;mez Ni&#241;o)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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 Escuadr&#243;n de Combate 211 &lsquo;Grifos&rsquo; flies the A-29B and which Wikipedia credits with Operation Armaged&#243;n against the FARC&rsquo;s 27th Front.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Apiay (Captain Luis F. G&#243;mez Ni&#241;o) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/catam\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Bogot&#225;, Capital District<\/span><span class=\"rh\">CATAM, Bogot&#225; (Brigadier General Camilo Daza)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The air force&rsquo;s airlift base on the military side of Bogot&#225;&rsquo;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 J&#250;piter and of the presidential fleet; Spanish Wikipedia places at CATAM the Hercules fleet of the C-130H lost at Puerto Legu&#237;zamo on 23 March 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the CATAM, Bogot&#225; (Brigadier General Camilo Daza) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/bolivarian-military-aviation-of-venezuela\/\">Bolivarian Military Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/el-libertador\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Aragua (Palo Negro, near Maracay)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">El Libertador<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened by Marcos P&#233;rez Jim&#233;nez on 9 December 1955 and the FAV&rsquo;s main jet base, home since 31 August 1983 of Grupo A&#233;reo de Caza 16, Latin America&rsquo;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 A&#233;reo de Transporte 6.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the El Libertador page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/la-carlota\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Miranda (eastern Caracas)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda (La Carlota)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">An air base in the middle of Caracas and the air arm&rsquo;s headquarters since 5 December 1970, from which P&#233;rez Jim&#233;nez 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda (La Carlota) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Ecuadorian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Ecuador&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/ecuadorian-air-force\/\">Ecuadorian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/taura\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Guayas province, canton of Yaguachi<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Taura<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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 &mdash; Jaguar, Mirage F1, Kfir and Cheetah &mdash; whose pilots made the claims of 10 February 1995 that Ecuador calls Latin America&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Taura page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/manta\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Manab&#237; province<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Manta (Eloy Alfaro)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Manta (Eloy Alfaro) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Bolivian Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Bolivian military flying began at El Alto, on the Altiplano above La Paz, where the I Air Brigade now shares the country&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/bolivian-air-force\/\">Bolivian Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/el-alto\/\"><span class=\"rk\">La Paz Department<\/span><span class=\"rh\">El Alto<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Near 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 Aviaci&#243;n on 12 October 1923, the air force&rsquo;s birthday; at about 4,061 metres, the airport opened in 1965 was the world&rsquo;s highest until 1994, and the I Air Brigade shares it with airline traffic &mdash; the scene of the air force&rsquo;s worst modern accident, when a C-130H ran off the runway into a city avenue on 27 February 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the El Alto page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Paraguayan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Paraguay flies almost all its military aircraft from &#209;u Guasu at Luque, which shares a runway with Asunci&#243;n&rsquo;s international airport, and uses Mariscal Estigarribia, with the country&rsquo;s longest runway, in the Chaco. These are the pages published so far; the full map of both bases is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/paraguayan-air-force\/\">Paraguayan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/nu-guasu\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Central Department (Departamento Central)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">&#209;u Guasu<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The military side of Asunci&#243;n&rsquo;s airfield at Luque, first inaugurated in 1938: Paraguay&rsquo;s first jets, AT-26 Xavantes, landed here in December 1979, the airport beside it carried Stroessner&rsquo;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the &#209;u Guasu page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Uruguayan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Uruguay flies its combat aircraft from Durazno, in the middle of the country, and its transports and helicopters from Carrasco, beside Montevideo&rsquo;s international airport. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all four bases is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/uruguayan-air-force\/\">Uruguayan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/durazno\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Durazno Department<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Durazno (Santa Bernardina)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Inaugurated on 14 April 1977 as the bad-weather alternate for Montevideo, the home of Air Brigade II and Uruguay&rsquo;s combat base, where the first two A-29 Super Tucanos landed on 18 February 2026 and the A-37B Dragonfly, the air force&rsquo;s last jet, was retired on 13 May 2026 after almost 50 years.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Durazno (Santa Bernardina) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Mexican Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Mexico flies from Santa Luc&#237;a, its main base since 1952 and now shared with Felipe &#193;ngeles 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/mexican-air-force\/\">Mexican Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bam-1-santa-lucia\/\"><span class=\"rk\">State of Mexico (Estado de M&#233;xico), Zumpango<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Santa Luc&#237;a Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 1)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built to move military flying out of Balbuena and inaugurated on 24 November 1952, the air force&rsquo;s main base and, according to Infodefensa, home since 10 August 1982 of the F-5E\/F Tiger IIs of Escuadr&#243;n A&#233;reo 401, nine left and three operational in 2025; since 21 March 2022 it has shared the site with Felipe &#193;ngeles International Airport, which SEDENA operates.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Santa Luc&#237;a Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 1) page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/bam-4-cozumel\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Quintana Roo<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cozumel Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 4)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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 Escuadr&#243;n A&#233;reo 201 here, carrying the number of the squadron that fought in the Philippines in 1945 and now flying T-6C+ Texan II trainers.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Cozumel Air Force Base (Air Force Base No. 4) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Mexican Naval Aviation bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/mexican-naval-aviation\/\">Mexican Naval Aviation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/las-bajadas-naval-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Veracruz<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Las Bajadas Naval (Veracruz)<\/span><span class=\"rp\">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&rsquo;s 2,400-metre runway and was home to the Navy&rsquo;s E-2C Hawkeyes from 2004.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Las Bajadas Naval (Veracruz) page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Guatemalan Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Guatemalan military flying has centred on La Aurora since 1923, with the Northern Air Command in Pet&#233;n and the Southern at Retalhuleu since 2003. These are the pages published so far; the full map of all 4 bases is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/guatemalan-air-force\/\">Guatemalan Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/la-aurora\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Guatemala Department<\/span><span class=\"rh\">La Aurora<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The 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&rsquo;s main international airport and the air force headquarters and Central Air Command.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the La Aurora page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Honduran Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">The Honduran Air Force flies from four main bases, from Toncont&#237;n 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/honduran-air-force\/\">Honduran Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/soto-cano\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Comayagua Department<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Soto Cano<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Palmerola, 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&ndash;1985 by different Wikipedia articles, and since October 2021 it has also been Palmerola International Airport.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Soto Cano page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Salvadoran Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/salvadoran-air-force\/\">Salvadoran Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ilopango\/\"><span class=\"rk\">San Salvador Department<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ilopango<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The air force&rsquo;s home for most of its history and the capital&rsquo;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&ndash;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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the Ilopango page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Cuba&rsquo;s fighters, none in day-to-day use by FlightGlobal&rsquo;s 2026 count, are at San Antonio de los Ba&#241;os, a US wartime base of 1942, by English Wikipedia&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/cuban-revolutionary-air-and-air-defense-force\/\">Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/san-antonio-de-los-banos\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Artemisa Province (until 2011 Havana Province)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">San Antonio de los Ba&#241;os<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Built 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&rsquo;s first Soviet MiGs were assembled that June; headquarters of the Cuban air force in the 1962 missile crisis and, by English Wikipedia&rsquo;s account, the Western Air Zone&rsquo;s MiG-29 and MiG-23 base today, although FlightGlobal counts no Cuban fighter in day-to-day use in 2026.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the San Antonio de los Ba&#241;os page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In the database<\/div>\n<h2>Dominican Air Force bases<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/dominican-air-force\/\">Dominican Air Force page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/san-isidro-air-base\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Santo Domingo Province (Santo Domingo Este)<\/span><span class=\"rh\">San Isidro<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Opened on 23 March 1953 as Base A&#233;rea 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.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Open the San Isidro page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"fly\">\n<div class=\"ad\">\n<div class=\"adin\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The part of the collection you can touch<\/div>\n<h2>Fly a jet from a Swiss Air Force base.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"adp\">Sion closed to the Air Force in 2017. The runway is still there, and so is a L-39 Albatros with a second seat.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-albatros-in-switzerland\/\">Fly the L-39 Albatros from Sion<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<style>#mfam .ph1{background-image:url(https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/swiss-af-hero-index-air-bases.jpg)!important}<\/style>\n<style>#mfam .cflag{background-image:url(https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/swiss-canton-flags-sprite-v2.png)!important}#mfam .cf0{background-position:-2px -2px}#mfam .cf1{background-position:-22px -2px}#mfam .cf2{background-position:-42px -2px}#mfam .cf3{background-position:-62px -2px}#mfam .cf4{background-position:-82px -2px}#mfam .cf5{background-position:-102px -2px}#mfam .cf6{background-position:-122px -2px}#mfam .cf7{background-position:-142px -2px}#mfam .cf8{background-position:-162px -2px}#mfam .cf9{background-position:-182px -2px}<\/style>\n<style>#mfam .nflag{background-image:url(https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aircraft-manufacturer-country-flags-v4.png)!important}#mfam .nf0{background-position:-2px -2px}#mfam .nf1{background-position:-24px -2px}#mfam .nf2{background-position:-46px -2px}#mfam .nf3{background-position:-68px -2px}#mfam .nf4{background-position:-90px -2px}#mfam .nf5{background-position:-112px -2px}#mfam .nf6{background-position:-134px -2px}#mfam .nf7{background-position:-156px -2px}#mfam .nf8{background-position:-178px -2px}#mfam .nf9{background-position:-200px -2px}#mfam .nf10{background-position:-222px -2px}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order of Battle &middot; Air bases Air Bases Every air base in the Order of Battle: what is stationed there, what was, and which ones you can still fly a jet from. 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