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Transit Center at Manas (formerly Manas Air Base and unofficially Ganci Air Base) is a former U.S. military installation at Manas International Airport, near Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It was primarily operated by the U.S. Air Force. The primary unit at the base was the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing.
All aircraft are reportedly based at Kant, alongside the Russian 999th Air Base. [5] Because of expense and military doctrine, Kyrgyzstan has not developed its air capability; a large number of the MiG-21 interceptors that it borrowed from Russia were returned in 1993, although a number of former Soviet air bases remain available.
Kant Air Base (Russian: Авиабаза Кант Aviabaza Kant) (ICAO: UAFW) is a military air base in Ysyk-Ata District of Chüy Region in Kyrgyzstan. It is located just south of Kant , around 20 km east of Bishkek and is home to the Russian Aerospace Forces' 999th Air Base.
All Kyrgyz military aircraft are reportedly based at Kant, alongside the Russian 999th Air Base. [12] Because of expense and military doctrine, Kyrgyzstan has not developed its air capability; a large number of the MiG-21 interceptors that it borrowed from Russia were returned in 1993, although a number of former Soviet air bases remain available.
The 376th Air Expeditionary Wing (376 AEW) is an inactive wing of the United States Air Force. It was last stationed at the Transit Center at Manas International Airport , Kyrgyz Republic , supporting U.S. and ISAF operations in Afghanistan .
The Kant Air Base near the city is now host to the Russian Air Force's 5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army's 999th Air Base positioned in Kyrgyzstan in response to the United States presence at Manas Air Base. The Kant airbase is also a structural subdivision of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Many graduates of the school were sent to form the 651st Fighter Aviation Regiment. In June 1947, the school was renamed the Frunze Military School of Pilots of the Soviet Air Force. It was originally base in an area which is today the Russian Air Force's Kant air base in the Ysyk-Ata District of the Chüy Region. From 1945 to 1947, 2,573 ...
On 26 September 2006, a Kyrgyzstan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft taking off for Moscow–Domodedovo collided on the runway with a US Air Force KC-135 tanker that had just landed. The Tupolev, with 52 passengers and nine crew on board, lost part of its wing but was able to take off and return to make a safe landing with a 2.5 m section of its ...