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Incirlik Air Base has a U.S. Air Force (USAF) complement of about five thousand airmen, with several hundred airmen from the Royal Air Force and Turkish Air Force also present, as of late 2002. The primary unit stationed at Incirlik Air Base is the 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) of the U.S. Air Force.
130A-45-LM (57-0453), modified to represent 56-0528, on display at the National Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, MD. On September 2, 1958, a Lockheed C-130A-II-LM (s/n 56-0528), from the 7406th Support Squadron, departed Incirlik Airbase in Turkey on a reconnaissance mission along the Turkish-Soviet border.
English: Brig. Gen. Bekir Ercan Van, 10th Tanker Base Command commander, after Gen. Ray signed the 10th Tanker Command guest book during a base tour Dec. 1, 2015, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Krystal Ardrey)
The 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Third Air Force. It is stationed at Incirlik Air Base , Turkey. The wing is also the host unit at Incirlik.
Starting in the 1950s, Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance flights flew from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.The U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers and shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960 was based at Incirlik - as was Power's unit, which operated under the cover of the Weather Observational Squadron of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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On 28 April 1960, a U.S. Lockheed U-2C spy plane, Article 358, was ferried from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to the US base at Peshawar airport by pilot Glen Dunaway. Fuel for the aircraft had been ferried to Peshawar the previous day in a US Air Force C-124 transport.
Adana (see Incirlik Air Base) Ankara Air Station [c] 7216th Support Group, 15 May 1955 – 1 July 1958 (TUSLOG, Det 10) [7] 7250th Support Squadron (later 7250th Support Group, 7250th Air Base Squadron), 1 April 1956 – 31 March 1973 (TUSLOG, Det 30) [8] 7217th Air Base Group, 15 November 1982 – 16 July 1992. Balikesir Air Base