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Spangdahlem Air Base (IATA: SPM, ICAO: ETAD, former code EDAD) is a NATO air base with the United States Air Force as a tenant constructed between 1951 and 1953 and located near the small German town of Spangdahlem, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-northeast of the city of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate.
General Dynamics F-16C Block 50D Fighting Falcon 91-0361 taxiing out from at Tab-Vee at Spangdahlem on 20 March 2011 in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn. The 52nd Fighter Wing (52 FW) is a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.
Spangdahlem is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde Speicher. The USAF Spangdahlem Air Base is nearby. Spang village is on one side of the Spanger brook while Dahlem is on the other side.
Schleswig Air Base (Air Force) Spangdahlem: Rhineland-Palatinate: ETAD SPM Spangdahlem Air Base (U.S. Air Force) Wiesbaden: Hesse: ETOU WIE
Spangdahlem Air Base is home to the US Air Force’s 52nd Fighter Wing, which states that it “provides Airpower options to deter and combat aggression” in NATO territory.
Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York, 18 August 1955 – 1 July 1963; 30 September 1968 – 31 December 1969; Detachment operated at Atlantic City Airport, New Jersey, 30 September 1968 – 31 December 1969. Erding Air Base, West Germany, 1 April 1971 – 31 July 1972; Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, 31 March 1992 – present [13] Detachment ...
In 1952 a North Atlantic Treaty Organization base was opened at Bitburg by the U.S. Air Force. At the end of the 1980s, French troops were withdrawn and NATO took over the former French barracks. After the First Gulf War most of the USAF forces were moved to the larger Spangdahlem Air Base, about 12 km east of
Headquarters USAFE transferred from Lindsey Air Station, Germany, to Ramstein Air Base in March 1973 and NATO's Allied Air Forces Central Europe was established at Ramstein Air Base in June 1974. The USAFE commander in chief then took command of Allied Air Forces Central Europe, in addition to commanding U.S. Air Force units in Europe.