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Ben Guerir Air Base is a Royal Moroccan Air Force base in the Marraksh-Safi region, located about 58 kilometres (36 mi) north of Marrakech, near the town of Ben Guerir. It previously served as a United States Air Force base and Transatlantic Abort Landing (TAL) site for the Space Shuttle .
Sidi Slimane was also used by the Seventeenth Air Force (17 AF) of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), which assigned the 324th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron equipped with F-86D Sabres to provide air defense of the USAF bases in Morocco during the 1950s. Sidi Slimane Air Base was the location of a Broken Arrow nuclear incident on 31 ...
USAF air base siting in the former French protectorate in Morocco developed out of the Allied presence there at the close of World War II.In the early 1950s, SAC developed an "Operation Reflex" strategy between its southern bases and Morocco, with B-36 and B-47 wings rotating to North Africa for extended temporary duty as a staging area for bombers pointed at the Soviet Union.
Map; Bassatine. Location of air base in Morocco. Runways; Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 2,820 9,252 Asphalt 08/26 1,957 6,420
Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco (Closed 1958) Boulhaut Air Base, Morocco (Closed 1963) Comiso Air Base, Italy; Used as BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile base, 1983–1991. Hellenikon Airport, Greece (Closed 1993) Iraklion Air Station, Crete, Greece (Closed 1993) Nouasseur Air Base, Morocco (Closed 1963) Pirinclik Air Base, Turkey (Closed 1997)
In January 2011, a Royal Moroccan Air Force F-5 crashed while trying to land at the airport of the military base near Meknes and a pilot was killed in the crash. [ 47 ] In July 2011, a Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130H crash killed 78 people after the aircraft, en route from Dakhla , a city in Morocco to Kenitra Air Base in Kenitra , crashed 9.7 ...
Kenitra Air Base (Arabic: قاعدة القنيطرة الجوية) (IATA: NNA, ICAO: GMMY) is a military airport in Kenitra, [1] a city in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region in Morocco. It is also known as the Third Royal Air Force Base , [ 1 ] operated by the Royal Moroccan Air Force .
The Royal Moroccan Air Force is the air force branch of the Moroccan Armed Forces, It employs 13,000 personnel [3] and is equipped with more than 300 aircraft. In the 21st century, the Royal Moroccan Air Force started a progressive modernization program of its aging fleet and its technical and operational capacities.