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2,442 metres (8,012 ft) Asphalt. Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella (IATA: NSY, ICAO: LICZ) is an Italian Air Force base (Italian: Aeroporto "Cosimo Di Palma" di Sigonella), and a U.S. Navy installation at Italian Air Force Base Sigonella in Lentini, Sicily, Italy. The whole NAS is a tenant of the Italian Air Force, which has the military and ...
San Vito AS. Coordinates. 40°38′46″N 017°50′25″E / 40.64611°N 17.84028°E / 40.64611; 17.84028 (San Vito AS) San Vito dei Normanni Air Station was a United States Air Force facility located 7 miles (11 km) west of Brindisi, Apulia, between the port of Brindisi and the town of San Vito dei Normanni, Italy.
Home to the 1st Fighter Wing and the Virginia Air National Guard's 192d Fighter Wing, both flying the F-22A Raptor. The base also hosts the headquarters of Air Combat Command, the 363rd Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing and the 480th ISR Wing. [33] Laughlin Air Force Base. Del Rio.
The United States Army has military complexes (bases are Italian territory and can be managed anytime by the Italian State authorities, [1] as the Sigonella crisis showed) in Italy: Caserma Del Din, near Vicenza (northern Italy, in the Veneto region; HQ of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, also part of US Army Africa.) Caserma Ederle, near ...
This is a category of airfields used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II located in Italy. These were used primarily as tactical airfields by Twelfth Air Force during the Italian Campaign, and as strategic bombing airfields by Fifteenth Air Force, attacking enemy industrial and economic targets in the Balkans; Eastern Europe; Austria and Germany.
Airports in Italy. Italian Air Force. Military airbases. Military installations of Italy.
Aviano Air Base was established by the Italian government in 1911 as the first airport in Italy, and was later used as training base for Italian pilots and construction facility for aircraft parts. During World War I, Italy used the airfield in missions against the Austro-Hungarian and German armies. At that time, two Italian aviators, Captain ...
During World War II the air base was captured by the British Eighth Army in October 1943 and subsequently used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force and Fifteenth Air Force. It was known as Gioia del Colle Airfield by the Americans. Known combat units operating from the airfield were: The airfield was also used by troop carrier ...