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Map; Bitburg Airport. Runways; Direction Length Surface m ft 06/24 3,056 10,026 Asphalt: ... From 1952 until 1994, Bitburg Air Base was a front-line NATO air base.
Bitburg (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪtˌbʊʁk] ⓘ; French: Bitbourg; Luxembourgish: Béibreg [ˈbəɪbʀəɕ]) is a city in Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate approximately 25 km (16 mi.) northwest of Trier and 50 km (31 mi.) northeast of Luxembourg city. The American Spangdahlem Air Base is nearby.
Bitburg Air Base was one of the bases affected by the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission (or BRAC) decisions that saw the drawdown of many military facilities in a series of post-Cold War force reductions. In July 1993, HQ USAFE announced the closure of Bitburg Air Base and the pending inactivation of the 36th Fighter Wing.
Bitburg Air Base Bitburg: closed 1994 Butzbach Kaserne Butzbach: closed 2008 Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne Darmstadt: closed 2008 Campbell Barracks: Heidelberg: closed 2013 this was USAREUR (US ARmy EURope) HQ Camp Grohn: Bremen: returned to German government now the campus of Jacobs University Camp King: Oberursel: closed 1995
Bitburg Air Base, West Germany. 586th Tactical Missile Group, 18 June 1958 – 25 September 1962; Hahn Air Base, West Germany. 587th Tactical Missile Group, 18 June 1958 – 25 September 1962 [1] Sembach Air Base, West Germany Squadrons. 38th Tactical Missile Maintenance Squadron: 1 April 1985 – 22 August 1990
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Bitburg Air Base; E. Erding Air Base; F. ... Rhein-Main Air Base; S. Spangdahlem Air Base; W.
The 7440th Composite Wing (Provisional) was a Major Air Command-controlled (MAJCON) temporary wing of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), active in Turkey in 1991. The concentration of aircraft under the 7440th Wing's control made possible the opening of a "northern front" against Iraq, via Turkey, during the 1991 Gulf War.
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