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USAF air base siting in the former French protectorate in Morocco developed out of the Allied presence there at the close of World War II.In the early 1950s, SAC developed an "Operation Reflex" strategy between its southern bases and Morocco, with B-36 and B-47 wings rotating to North Africa for extended temporary duty as a staging area for bombers pointed at the Soviet Union.
In July 2011, a Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130H crash killed 78 people after the aircraft, en route from Dakhla, a city in Morocco to Kenitra Air Base in Kenitra, crashed 9.7 km (6 mi) from a planned stop-over at Guelmim Air Base. The 6 crew, 60 members of the army and 12 civilians, mainly partners travelling with their partners, perished in ...
Ben Guerir Air Base is a Royal Moroccan Air Force base in the Marraksh-Safi region, located about 58 kilometres (36 mi) north of Marrakech, near the town of Ben Guerir.It previously served as a United States Air Force base and Transatlantic Abort Landing (TAL) site for the Space Shuttle.
Mather Air Force Base: Sacramento: California: 1993 Closed McChord Air Force Base: Lakewood: Washington: 2010 Realigned as part of Joint Base Lewis–McChord [13] McClellan Air Force Base: Sacramento: California: 2001 Partially realigned to US Coast Guard as CGAS Sacramento: McCoy Air Force Base: Orlando: Florida: 1975 Closed McGuire Air Force ...
Edwards Air Force Base in California was the site of the first Space Shuttle landing, ... Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco (1988–2002); [16] Casablanca, Morocco ...
The Royal Moroccan Air Force is the air force branch of the Moroccan Armed Forces, It employs 13,000 personnel [3] and is equipped with more than 300 aircraft. In the 21st century, the Royal Moroccan Air Force started a progressive modernization program of its aging fleet and its technical and operational capacities.
Sidi Slimane was also used by the Seventeenth Air Force (17 AF) of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), which assigned the 324th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron equipped with F-86D Sabres to provide air defense of the USAF bases in Morocco during the 1950s. Sidi Slimane Air Base was the location of a Broken Arrow nuclear incident on 31 ...
Naval Air Station Port Lyautey is a former United States Navy Naval Air Station in Morocco, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-northwest of Kenitra and about 120 kilometres (75 mi) northeast of Casablanca. The Naval Air Station was turned over to the Royal Moroccan Air Force and the last