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Aviano Air Base (IATA: AVB, ICAO: LIPA) (Italian: Base aerea di Aviano) is a base in northeastern Italy, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. It is located in the Aviano municipality, at the foot of the Carnic Pre-Alps or Southern Carnic Alps , about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Pordenone .
With the declining use of the Italian live fire range, the rotational squadrons became a thing of the past. Aviano became a war reserve material storage base and played a big part in Desert Storm. In 1992, HQ 16th Air Force and the 401st Fighter Wing moved from Torrejon Air Base, Spain to Aviano. The Wing became home to two F-16 fighter ...
The wing traces its lineage to its activation on 20 November 1947, first designated as the 31st Fighter Wing, and stationed at Turner Airfield, Georgia. Since then, the wing has been stationed at George Air Force Base, California and Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, until finally coming to Aviano Air Base, Italy in April 1994. [4]
The 601st Quartermaster Company is an Aerial Delivery Support Company of the United States Army based in Aviano, Italy. It is a subordinate unit of the 173rd Support Battalion (United States) . The members are primarily Parachute Riggers who are responsible for the packing, storage, maintenance and issuing of both personnel and heavy drop ...
The wing headquarters was located at Aviano Air Base, Italy.It operated from expeditionary sites at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo; Camp Able Sentry, Macedonia; Sarajevo and Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia; Taszar Air Base, Hungary; Zagreb, Croatia and Naval Air Station Sigonella and San Vito Air Station, Italy; in addition to a contingency processing center at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.
In 1990, Air Force Space Command established a tenant unit at San Vito Air Station. Detachment 1, 73rd Space Surveillance Group was a deep space surveillance mission whose job was to search for earth-orbiting objects, generate positional (Element Set) data to identify the objects location in space, and provide that data to the Cheyenne Mountain Space Surveillance Center located in Cheyenne ...
The 31st Operations Group was reactivated in late October 1991 at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida.The 31st Tactical Fighter Wing received new equipment the previous March in the form of Block 40 F-16C/D Fighting Falcons and in October of that year the wing resumed its original title (one month short of 44 years since the unit had formed) of 31st Fighter Wing, with the 31 OG as its flying ...
This is a category of airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II located in Italy. These were used primarily as tactical airfields by Twelfth Air Force during the Italian Campaign, and as strategic bombing airfields by Fifteenth Air Force, attacking enemy industrial and economic targets in the Balkans; Eastern Europe; Austria and Germany.