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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 .
After the war, the Royal Danish Air Force took control of the field which is still its main base. At the request of some middle- and west-Jutland politicians, the airport was opened on 1 November 1965 when the first direct connection between Karup and Copenhagen was opened. In 1968 the airport's first terminal was built.
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.
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
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Squadron 724 (Danish: Eskadrille 724) is a Royal Danish Air Force helicopter squadron, based at Karup Air Base in central Jutland. The squadron was officially established on 7 August 2003, following the disbandment and reorganization of the Danish army's Royal Danish Army Air Corps (Hærens Flyvetjeneste, HFT).
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)
Military air bases: Aalborg / Nørresundby: North Jutland (Nordjylland) EKYT AAL Aalborg Air Base / Air Transport Wing Aalborg: 1,410,575 08L/26R, 08R/26L Karup / Herning: Mid-Jutland (Midtjylland) EKKA KRP Karup Air Base / Helicopter Wing Karup: 13,038 09R/27L, 09L/27R, 03/21, 14/32 Vojens: South Denmark : EKSP SKS Vojens Air Base / Fighter ...