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The Incirlik Air Base was the main U-2 flight base in this entire region beginning in 1956. [12] This lasted until 1 May 1960, when a volley of about 14 Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missiles shot down the U-2 aircraft flown by the American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers near Sverdlovsk , Russia, a test site in the Soviet Union's Intercontinental ...
A C-130H Hercules transport plane, 74–2064, was engaged in a logistics mission out of Adana-Incirlik Air Base to several U.S. military installations in Turkey. The aircraft was returning to Adana when an explosion occurred in a left wing fuel tank. At the time, the aircraft was descending through 5000 feet to 3000 feet.
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.
The Philippines' defence chief has ordered the military to boost the number of troops stationed at the northernmost islands near Taiwan to fortify Manila's territorial defence capabilities.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s decision to allow U.S. forces indefinite access to two Philippine air force and naval bases in Cagayan province near Batanes under a 2014 defense pact ...
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. The mission of the 39 ABW is to support and protect NATO assets and people throughout Turkey while providing a full spectrum of capabilities to the ...
More than 16,000 military personnel from the United States and the Philippines, along with a few hundred Australian troops and military observers from 14 countries, were participating in annual ...
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