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Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base (Udorn RTAFB) is a Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) base, the home of 23rd Wing Air Command. [1] It is in the city of Udon Thani in northeastern Thailand and is the main airport serving the city and province. The RTAF 231 Squadron "Hunter" is assigned to Udorn, equipped with the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet-A.
Birmingham MAP, AL Mitchel AFB NY, McGuire AFB, NJ: Jun 49 – Feb 53, Apr 53 – Apr 59, Feb 87 – Aug 92, Mar 95 – Oct 97 consolidated with 514th Comm Flight and 514th Operations Sq 516th Communications Squadron: Memphis MAP, TN: Jun 49 – Jan 53 542d Communications Squadron: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico: 1991–1993, formerly 1960th Comm Sq.
Udorn also hosted three squadrons of F-4C/D & E Phantoms which flew escort, sweep, and Air Combat Patrol missions to protect other U.S. strike aircraft. From Korat, Takhli and Ubon came the Republic F-105 Thunderchiefs and F-4C and F-4D Phantoms that actually delivered the bombs and also General Dynamics F-111s with terrain-following radar from ...
During the Vietnam War the facility was known as Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, serving as a front-line base of the United States Air Force and was the Asian headquarters for Air America. On 8 February 2006, an international group of skydivers from 31 countries called the "World Team" set a world record for the largest freefall formation , a ...
Nahkon Phanom RTAFB: A-1 E/G/H/J Skyraider: 1970 [17] 606th Special Operations Squadron: Nahkon Phanom RTAFB: C-123 Provider, U-10: 15 June 1971 609th Special Operations Squadron: Nahkon Phanom RTAFB: A-1 E/G/H/J Skyraider: 1 December 1969 711th Special Operations Squadron: Duke Field: MC-130E Combat Talon I [4] 745th Special Operations ...
Ubon RTAFB was established in the 1950s. Political considerations with regards to communist forces engaging in a civil war inside Laos and fears of the civil war spreading into Thailand led the Thai government to allow the United States to covertly use five Thai bases beginning in 1961 for the air defense of Thailand and to fly reconnaissance flights over Laos.
The Royal Thai Air Force maintains a number of modern bases which were constructed between 1954 and 1968, have permanent buildings and ground support equipment. All but one were built and used by United States forces until their withdrawal from Thailand in 1976 when the RTAF took over the installations at Takhli and Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) .
In March 1968, Detachment 2 of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron at Udorn RTAFB operating HH-3s and HH-53Bs, was transferred to the 40th ARRS. [2] The 40th moved to Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base on 21 July 1971.