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Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base is located on Mactan island, [1] in Lapu-Lapu City, in the province of Cebu in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. Mactan island is best known as being the location where the Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan was killed by the forces of Lapulapu during his circumnavigation of the earth.
In 1979, another satellite campus was established in Mactan Benito Ebuen Air Base Campus in Lapulapu City in Mactan, Cebu. On June 3, 1992, House Bill 26650 was signed into law as Republic Act. No. 7605 by then President Corazon C. Aquino converting Philippine Air Force College of Aeronautics into a state college known as the Philippine State ...
The runway was built by the United States Air Force in 1956 as an emergency airport for Strategic Air Command bombers. It was known back then as the Mactan Air Base. [4] It remained a spartan outpost until the Vietnam War in the 1960s when it became a base for a C-130 unit of the U.S. Air Force.
Mactan is also the birthplace of Leonila Dimataga-Garcia, wife of Carlos P. Garcia, the fourth President of the Republic. Leonila Dimataga-Garcia was a relative of the wife of Lapu-Lapu City's former mayor Ernest Weigel Jr. (1992–2001, three terms) who was the richest mayor in Metro Cebu, with a net worth of ₱57 million in the early 2000s.
Clark Air Base; Colonel Ernesto Rabina Air Base; D. Danilo Atienza Air Base; Camp Melchor F. dela Cruz; E. ... Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base; N. Camp Guillermo Nakar;
Mactan Shrine; Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base; Magellan Shrine; S. Shangri-La's Mactan Resort & Spa, Cebu This page was last edited on 24 July 2021, at 06:50 (UTC). ...
The 88th Air Base Wing headquarters is located in Building 10 on Area A, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on May 17, 2022. (Matthew Clouse/U.S. Air Force)
Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base; R. Rajah Buayan Air Station; V. Villamor Air Base This page was last edited on 21 March 2016, at 00:02 (UTC). Text is available ...