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Air Base Karup is the main air base of the Royal Danish Air Force. It is situated 3 km west of Karup in mid- Jutland . The air base covers 3000 hectares of land of which only a third is inside the operational area marked by a 17 km long fence, Midtjyllands Airport share its runway's .
Midtjyllands Airport (Danish: Midtjyllands Lufthavn) (IATA: KRP, ICAO: EKKA), formerly known as Karup Airport, is an airport in Denmark. The airport is situated 3 km west of Karup and carries passengers primarily from nine municipalities in mid- and west Jutland that also own the airport.
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The air force received six F-84E Thunderjet and 238 F-84G Thunderjet as military aid from the US, and formed five new squadrons (726 to 730) at Karup Air Base from 1952 to 1954. The rapid expansion caused problems as neither two-seaters nor flight simulators were available, causing 89 crashed F-84s and 40 pilot casualties.
On 8 January 1951, Squadron 724 was formed at Karup Air Base and was soon equipped with 20 Gloster Meteor fighters. In June 1952, the squadron relocated to Aalborg Air Base, and in 1956 it transitioned to using Hawker Hunter fighters. In 1958, the squadron returned to Karup Air Base but was moved again in 1959 to Skrydstrup Air Base.
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An RF-35 Draken taxiing into takeoff position during Exercise OKSBOEL '86 at Karup Air Base. AIRBALTAP in Karup, commanded by a Danish lieutenant general: Royal Danish Air Force [6] [7] Aalborg Air Base. Eskadrille 723, 16× F-16A; Eskadrille 726, 16× F-16A; Karup Air Base. Eskadrille 725, 20× F-35 Draken strike fighter, 5× TF-35 Draken