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Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella (IATA: NSY, ICAO: LICZ) is an Italian Air Force base (Italian: Aeroporto "Cosimo Di Palma" di Sigonella), and a U.S. Navy installation at Italian Air Force Base Sigonella in Lentini, Sicily, Italy. The whole NAS is a tenant of the Italian Air Force, which has the military and the administrative control. [1]
HC-4 was previously home-based at Naval Air Station Sigonella, located in Sicily, Italy. The squadron completed a homeport change to Naval Station Norfolk in 2005–06. [4] The squadron was disestablished on 28 September 2007. [citation needed]
Sigonella military airport, with Mount Etna in the background. Without prior warning, U.S. fighters diverted the Egyptian plane to Sigonella Air Base in Sicily, an Italian military airport that includes a U.S. Navy naval air station (NAS). Around 10:30 pm, Air Force Colonel Ercolano Annicchiarico, who was to relinquish command of the military ...
During a long range night intercept by VF-74 and VF-103, the 737 was forced to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily. The terrorists were taken into Italian custody, tried and sentenced. VF-103 and the rest of the airwing participated in Operation Attain Document and Operation El Dorado Canyon in the spring of 1986.
The US Navy's main airfields are designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF) having a support role. Some airfields are parented by a larger naval installation or are part of a Joint Base operated jointly with another part of the US military .
The flight was planned in honor of the 50th anniversary of Naval Aviation. 8 August–November 1962: VP-23 deployed to Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, relieving VP-16. Detachments were maintained at Naval Base Rota, Spain; Elmas, Sardinia; and Soudha Bay, Crete.
10 June 1990: VP-11 deployed to Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily. During the deployment the squadron flew numerous missions in support of Operation Desert Shield, which began on 2 August 1990. Two detachments were maintained for Operation Desert Shield support, one at Souda Bay, Crete, the other at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
It is assigned to the 319th Operations Group and is stationed at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, Italy. The squadron was first established in the Panama Canal Zone as the 7th Aero Squadron in 1917 and served as a reconnaissance unit until 1942, when it was redesignated as the 397th Bombardment Squadron.