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Ravnets Air Base, near the Black Sea coast city of Burgas, housed a squadron (flying MiG-21s, later MiG-29s) of the 17th Fighter Air Regiment - an integral part of the 2nd Air Defence Division. Later, as 5th Fighter Air Base it was put under the newly established Air Defence Corps and its squadron was named "Sharks"(although unofficially, but ...
Vrazhdebna Air Base, Sofia; Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Plovdiv region; Krumovo Air Base, Plovdiv region; Bezmer Air Base, Yambol region; Nebneb Air Base, Burgas region; Dolna Mitropoliya Air Base, Pleven region
Bases NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, Germany - hosts NATO Airborne Early Warning Force (NAEWF) Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft. Chièvres Air Base, Belgium - operated by U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force but "considered an installation of SHAPE."
Boris Maslennikov's airplane in flight, Sofia 1910. The Bulgarian Air Force dates back to the end of the 19th century. At the 1892 Plovdiv International Fair, two lieutenants of the Bulgarian Army flew in the 'La France' balloon owned by the Frenchman Eugène Godard. [5]
The U.S. has also signed a similar agreement with Romania and the U.S. military units deployed to both Bulgaria and Romania will be known as Joint Task Force East. [2] Joint US-Bulgarian military bases established according to the 2006 Defense Cooperation Agreement between the United States and Bulgaria: Bezmer Air Base in Yambol Province
Pages in category "Air force installations of Bulgaria" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Dobroslavtsi Air Base or 1st Fighter Air Base Dobroslavtsi (Bulgarian: 1ва Изтребителна авиобаза Доброславци) is an air force facility near Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is located to the west of the city and has for long time been its major air defence asset.
Bezmer Air Base (IATA: JAM, ICAO: LBIA) is an air base for the Bulgarian Air Force.The base is situated in the eastern part of the Upper Thracian Lowland, in Yambol Oblast (Region), 10 km west of the city of Yambol and 30 km southeast of the city of Sliven, between the villages of Bezmer and Bolyarsko, and near the Sofia-Burgas railway.