Incirlik Air Base
Incirlik Air Base (Turkish: İncirlik Hava Üssü) (IATA: UAB, ICAO: LTAG) is a Turkish air base of slightly more than 3320 ac (1335 ha), located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey. The base is within an urban area of 1.7 million people, 10 km (6 mi) east of the city core, and 32 km (20 mi) inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The United States Air Force and the Turkish Air Force are the primary users of the air base, although it is at times also used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Saudi Air Force. The base is also the home of the 74th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment (Patriot unit) of the Spanish Army.
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İncirlik Hava Üssü | |||||||
| İncirlik, Adana in Turkey | |||||||
A Turkish Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker of the 10th Tanker Base seen at Incirlik AB during 2020 | |||||||
Incirlik AB Location in Turkey Incirlik AB Incirlik AB (NATO) | |||||||
| Coordinates | 37°00′07″N 035°25′33″E | ||||||
| Type | Joint Turkish/United States airbase | ||||||
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| Owner | Ministry of National Defense | ||||||
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| Condition | Operational | ||||||
| Website | Official website (USAF) | ||||||
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| Built | 1951 – 1955 | ||||||
| Built by | US Army Corps of Engineers | ||||||
| In use | 1955 – present | ||||||
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| Identifiers | IATA: UAB, ICAO: LTAG, WMO: 173500 | ||||||
| Elevation | 232 feet (71 m) AMSL | ||||||
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| Source: AIP Turkey | |||||||
Incirlik Air Base is the home of the 10th Air Wing (Ana Jet Üssü or AJÜ) of the 2nd Air Force Command (Hava Kuvvet Komutanlığı) of the Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri). Other wings of this command are located in Merzifon (LTAP), Malatya/Erhaç (LTAT) and Diyarbakır (LTCC).
Incirlik Air Base has a U.S. Air Force (USAF) complement of about five thousand airmen, with several hundred airmen from the Royal Air Force and Turkish Air Force also present, as of late 2002. The primary unit stationed at Incirlik Air Base is the 39th Air Base Wing (39 ABW) of the U.S. Air Force. Incirlik Air Base has one 3,048 m (10,000 ft)-long runway, located among about 57 hardened aircraft shelters. Tactical nuclear weapons are stored at the base. Among them are "up to" 50 B61 nuclear bombs.