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Al Dhafra Air Base. / 24.24000°N 54.54833°E / 24.24000; 54.54833. Al Dhafra Air Base ( Arabic: قاعدة الظفرة الجوية) ( IATA: DHF, ICAO: OMAM) is a military installation in the United Arab Emirates. The base is located approximately 20 mi (32 km) south of Abu Dhabi, and is operated by the United Arab Emirates Air Force .
Chief of the Air Staff. Vice Chief of the Air Staff. Air Commanders (Commander-in-Chief grade) Principal Staff Officers at Air Headquarters. Heads of Services and Directorates. Air Officers of Tri-Services Commands. Senior Staff Officers of Air Commands. Commandants of Training Institutions. See also.
The Ethiopian Air Force ( ETAF) ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ አየር ኃይል, romanized : Ye-Ītyōṗṗyā āyer ḫayil) is the air service branch of the Ethiopian National Defence Force. The ETAF is tasked with protecting the national air space, providing support to ground forces, as well as assisting civil operations during war.
The commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is known as its Commandant. The commandant manages the school which is a military unit that operates in a distinctly academic atmosphere. [1] The position is usually held by a colonel selected by the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) commander although this authority may ...
Open 1942 – closed 1977. Webb Air Force Base ( IATA: BGS [1] ), previously named Big Spring Air Force Base, was a United States Air Force facility of the Air Training Command that operated from 1951 to 1977 in West Texas within the current city limits of Big Spring. Webb AFB was a major undergraduate pilot training (UPT) facility for the Air ...
The Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) was established on 15 August 1947 with the independence of Pakistan from British India. The RPAF began with a paper share allotment of 2,332 personnel, a fleet of 24 Tempest II fighter-bombers, 16 Hawker Typhoon fighters, two H.P.57 Halifax bombers, two Auster aircraft, twelve North American Harvard trainers and ten de Havilland Tiger Moth biplanes.
Airfield shared with Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni or MCAS Iwakuni (岩国飛行場, Iwakuni hikōjō) ( IATA: IWK, ICAO: RJOI) is a United States Marine Corps air station located in the Nishiki river delta, 1.3 NM (2.4 km; 1.5 mi) southeast of Iwakuni Station [1] in the city of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
A Royal Air Force of Oman Jaguar intercepting an Il-38 in 1987. In 1990 the SOAF was renamed the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO). [1] In 1993 and 1994 the RAFO replaced its Hawker Hunters with four BAE Hawk Mk 103 fighter-trainers and 12 single-seat Hawk Mk 203, equipped with Westinghouse APG-66H radar, as light ground attack/interceptors.