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An aerial view of the airfield at Incirlik Air Base, c. 1987 Composite Recon Track requiring two missions Incirlik Air Base (Turkish: İncirlik Hava Üssü) (IATA: UAB, ICAO: LTAG) is a Turkish air base of slightly more than 3320 ac (1335 ha), [2] located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey.
According to the Turkish Defence Minister, the US F-16 that destroyed the drone took off from Jordan and not from the US base at Incirlik, Turkey. [11] On 10 October, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, said : [12] "The US downed Türkiye's UAV in Syria. Isn't Türkiye US' NATO ally? How do we make sense of this?
A C-130H Hercules transport plane, 74–2064, was engaged in a logistics mission out of Adana-Incirlik Air Base to several U.S. military installations in Turkey. The aircraft was returning to Adana when an explosion occurred in a left wing fuel tank. At the time, the aircraft was descending through 5000 feet to 3000 feet.
130A-45-LM (57-0453), modified to represent 56-0528, on display at the National Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, MD. On September 2, 1958, a Lockheed C-130A-II-LM (s/n 56-0528), from the 7406th Support Squadron, departed Incirlik Airbase in Turkey on a reconnaissance mission along the Turkish-Soviet border.
On 22–23 July, the U.S. reached an agreement with Turkey for American warplanes striking the Islamic State in Syria to be stored in the Turkish air bases at İncirlik in Adana Province and Diyarbakır in Diyarbakır Province. [73] Turkey confirmed the deal on 24 July. [74]
The 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Third Air Force. It is stationed at Incirlik Air Base , Turkey. The wing is also the host unit at Incirlik.
Starting in the 1950s, Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance flights flew from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.The U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers and shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960 was based at Incirlik - as was Power's unit, which operated under the cover of the Weather Observational Squadron of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
On 14 April 1994, at 07:36 local time, a USAF E-3 AWACS aircraft from the 963d Airborne Air Control Squadron (based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma) departed Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey in support of OPC. The AWACS, with its 19-member crew under the mission crew command of Major Lawrence Tracy, was to provide airborne threat warning and ...