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The 7407th squadron had a Detachment 1 organized at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany using three North American RF-100A Super Sabre reconnaissance aircraft (53-1551, 53–1554, 53–1554) called as "Slick Chicks". In May 1955, after successful competition of flight tests, the aircraft were sent to the 7407th Support Squadron.
Bitburg Airport (German: Flugplatz Bitburg) (IATA: BBJ, ICAO: EDRB) is a commercial airport serving Bitburg, a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Bitburg, 32 km (20 mi) north of Trier , and 217 km (135 mi) west of Wiesbaden .
An Italian F-104S at Bitburg Air Base, 1988. In the Italian Air Force, the F-104 was a mainstay from the early 1960s until the end of the 20th century. The first flight for an Italian F-104G was a Lockheed-built aircraft, MM6501, on 9 June 1962; however, the first Fiat/Aeritalia-built example flew two years later on 5 October 1962. Italy ...
Bitburg Air Base Bitburg: closed 1994 Butzbach Kaserne Butzbach: closed 2008 Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne Darmstadt: closed 2008 Campbell Barracks: Heidelberg: closed 2013 this was USAREUR (US ARmy EURope) HQ Camp Grohn: Bremen: returned to German government now the campus of Jacobs University Camp King: Oberursel: closed 1995
The Regional Museum of Bitburg-Prüm is housed in a former agricultural school. It contains numerous artifacts of the history of Bitburg and the Eifel Region in general. In the cultural centre Haus Beda are exhibited works of the Düsseldorf painter Fritz von Wille (1860–1941), the Eifel's most widely known artist.
A flight of four Lockheed F-104G Starfighters of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) crash in formation into a field near the village of Ralingen near the border with Luxembourg, ~12 miles S of Bitburg, West Germany, shortly after take-off from Bitburg Air Base, killing all four pilots. The four jets flown by an Italian Air ...
The 86th Air Division (Defense) was a re-designation of the 86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Ramstein Air Base, West Germany, on 18 November 1960 when the 86th FIW was combined with the ground radar functions of the 501st Tactical Control Wing. [1]
Offutt AFB, NE: 1960–1970. Redesignated 31st Combat Communications Squadron. ... Germany Bitburg AB, Germany Andersen AFB, Guam: 1948–1962, 1991–1994, 1994 ...