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Naval Air Station Port Lyautey is a former United States Navy Naval Air Station in Morocco, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-northwest of Kenitra and about 120 kilometres (75 mi) northeast of Casablanca. The Naval Air Station was turned over to the Royal Moroccan Air Force and the last of US military personnel departed the base in 1977.
Its port, at the mouth of the Sebou river, was opened in 1913. [5] It soon became the best river port in Morocco. [6] Kenitra draws its name from a culvert built at Fouarat lake upstream of the kasbah. This culvert was destroyed in 1928. In 1933, the French officially named the locale "Port Lyautey".
At Port Lyautey in northwestern, Morocco the US Navy operated Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, starting in February 1943. Port Lyautey (now Kenitra) is 86 miles northeast of Casablanca. The Naval Air Station was a French Naval Air Forces base. France built the base starting in 1934, the base had two 6,000 feet paved runways, two hangars, and ...
The Port Lyautey area, lying in a "U" bend of the Sebou River, contained an airfield with concrete runways and hangars on the low flats next to the river and approximately five miles from the landing beaches but nine miles up the shallow river with a maximum depth that even at the highest November tides limited access to ships drawing no more ...
Aircraft operating from NAS Port Lyautey included the P4M Mercator in the 1950s, the P-2 Neptune in the 1950s and 1960s, and the P-3 Orion, EP-3 Aries and EA-3 Skywarrior in the 1960s and 1970s until the installation's closure as a USN facility and transfer to the Royal Moroccan Air Force in 1977.
It was a U.S. Navy installation connected to the Naval Air Station Port Lyautey in Kenitra, Morocco. [2] The base was closed in 1976. [3] Following its closure in the mid-1970's, the base was returned to the government of the Kingdom of Morocco and was transformed into a military barracks serving Sidi Slimane Air Base by the Royal Moroccan Air ...
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