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Ben Guerir Air Base is a Royal Moroccan Air Force base in the Marraksh-Safi region, located about 58 kilometres (36 mi) north of Marrakech, near the town of Ben Guerir.It previously served as a United States Air Force base and Transatlantic Abort Landing (TAL) site for the Space Shuttle.
The location of Ben Guerir Air Base, Saïdia and Oran. A French news agency reported that the plane had exploded in the air Northeast of Saïdia, in French Morocco in the same general location of its last known position. After an exhaustive search, no remains of the device could be located.
Ben Guerir (Arabic: بن ڭرير) is a university town and military town that serves as the capital of Rehamna Province in central Morocco, in the Marrakesh-Safi region. it hosts Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Ben Guerir Air Base.
The Moroccan air force was formed on 14 May 1956 as the Sherifian Royal Aviation (Aviation Royale Chérifienne).[4]Its modern installations and bases were inherited from France (Meknes, Rabat in tandem with the United States, Marrakech, Kenitra, Ben Guerir, Boulhault, Nouasseur, and Sidi Slimane), [4] and later Spain (). [5]
USAF air base siting in the former French protectorate in Morocco developed out of the Allied presence there at the close of World War II.In the early 1950s, SAC developed an "Operation Reflex" strategy between its southern bases and Morocco, with B-36 and B-47 wings rotating to North Africa for extended temporary duty as a staging area for bombers pointed at the Soviet Union.
The division exercised jurisdiction over three bases built for SAC bombers in Morocco, Sidi Slimane Air Base, Ben Guerir Air Base, and Nouasseur Air Base. [4] [note 1] The original agreement for the use of bases in Morocco had been negotiated in 1950, at a time when the country was still under French rule.
Pages in category "Air force installations of Morocco" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Ben Guerir Air Base; F. First Royal Moroccan ...
In 1987 the Moroccan government agreed to the use of an old abandoned U.S. Strategic Air Command Base at Ben Guérir as a transoceanic abort landing site for NASA's space shuttles during emergencies. On the military side, Morocco signed agreements with the U.S. government allowing U.S. forces access and transit rights to Moroccan Air Force bases.