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North Bay's air force base is the centre for the air defence of the entire Canada, and works in concert with the United States via NORAD for the air defence of Canada-U.S. portion of the North American continent. Cuba: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base: The military facility has over 8,500 U.S. sailors and Marines stationed there. Curaçao (Netherlands)
Bases NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, Germany - hosts NATO Airborne Early Warning Force (NAEWF) Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft. Chièvres Air Base, Belgium - operated by U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force but "considered an installation of SHAPE."
This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases , support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
Other U.S. bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with U.S. access. The U.S. military has access to many ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin , Fremantle , Stirling naval base in Perth , and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.
List of former Royal Air Force stations; List of seaplane bases in the United Kingdom; List of Royal Air Force stations; List of United States Army airfields; List of United States Navy airfields; List of former United States Air Force installations; List of major bases and units of Tactical Air Command
Most countries with military aviation forces have a system for naming of military airbases. "Air Force Base" ("AFB") is part of the name of military airbases of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the South African Air Force (SAAF), with the USAF using it at the end of the name of the base (e.g. "Dover AFB"), [1] and the SAAF using it at the start (e.g. "AFB Hoedspruit").
Air Base name Base Aerienne French title Notes Dijon Air Base: BA 102 Base aérienne 102 Dijon – Longvic "Capitaine Georges Guynemer" to close under 2015 budget [1] > Cambrai - Épinoy Air Base: BA 103 Base aérienne 103 Cambrai – Épinoy "Commandant René Mouchotte" closed in 2013 Évreux-Fauville Air Base: BA 105