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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 .
36th Fighter-Bomber Group F-84E 49-2150 Fürstenfeldbruck AB, West Germany, 1950 22d TFS F-105s with French Air Force Dassault Mystère B2s from Cambrai Air Base – 1964. As a result of the Berlin Blockade and other Cold War tensions in Europe, the 36th Fighter Group was reassigned to USAFE .
Spangdahlem Air Base (IATA: SPM, ICAO: ETAD, former code EDAD) is a NATO air base with the United States Air Force as a tenant constructed between 1951 and 1953 and located near the small German town of Spangdahlem, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-northeast of the city of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate.
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.
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Bitburg Air Base, Germany, 12 December 1954 Étain-Rouvres Air Base, France, 7 July 1955 – 10 December 1957 McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, 1 October 1962 – 31 July 1972 (deployed to Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base , Thailand 8 April-15 August 1965; Eglin Air Force Base , Florida 22 April-3 June 1971)
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.
With the pending closure of Bitburg Air Base Germany on 25 February 1994 it was decided to reactivate the 493d as an F-15C/D squadron. Aircraft were transferred from Eglin AFB Florida and the 493d was reactivated on 1 January. The 493rd's arrival meant that the 48th became the largest F-15E/F-15C composite unit in the U.S. Air Force.