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Base Lieutenant Étienne Mantoux, formerly Étain-Rouvres Air Base (ICAO: LFQE) is a base of the French Army Light Aviation.It is located on the Lorraine Plateau in northeastern France, 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west of Étain; on the west side of the Départemental 906 (D906) (Meuse) road, adjacent to the village of Rouvres-en-Woevre in the Meuse département about 12 miles (19 kilometers) east ...
The first non French NATO tenant in France was the 1630th Air Base Squadron of the USAF Military Air Transport Service, activated in June 1950 at Paris - Orly Air Base. On 28 February 1958 the official name of Orly Air Base was changed to Orly Airport and most MATS flights were routed to Chateauroux Air Depot.
Air Base name Base Aerienne French title Notes Dijon Air Base: BA 102 Base aérienne 102 Dijon – Longvic "Capitaine Georges Guynemer" to close under 2015 budget [1] > Cambrai - Épinoy Air Base: BA 103 Base aérienne 103 Cambrai – Épinoy "Commandant René Mouchotte" closed in 2013 Évreux-Fauville Air Base: BA 105
The 388th OG flew the F-16's 5 millionth flying hour at Hill Air Force Base 4 December 1996. In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to close Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. As a result, it would distribute the 27th Fighter Wing's F-16s to 388th OG at Hill AFB (six aircraft) and several other installations.
On 25 August 1959, the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing moved to Spangdahlem AB from the Etain-Rouvres Air Base, France, and assumed host unit duties. [7] On 8 July 1958 the name of the wing was changed to the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing as a result of an Air Force wide redesignation. Its squadrons were renamed Tactical Fighter Squadrons.
This is a category of airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II located in France. These were used primarily as Advanced Landing Grounds and in the immediate postwar era prior to the Army Air Forces becoming the United States Air Force in September 1947.
In the fall of 1956 the 388th began planning for conversion to the F-100D/F "Super Sabre" Due to the adverse flying conditions at Etain for conversion training, the new aircraft were deployed to Nouasseur Air Base in Morocco, with the squadrons deploying their F-86's to Nouasseur, then returning to France or Spangdahlem in their new F-100s for ...
The maintenance of overseas military bases enable the French Armed Forces to conduct expeditionary warfare, and often tend to be located in areas of strategic or diplomatic importance. In the French terminology, the "prepositioned forces" consist of the "sovereignty forces" based in the Overseas France and the "forces of presence" based abroad.