 Beja
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1964 to present | | Location: | 38 5 N - 7 56 W | | 4.5nm NW of Beja | | ICAO: LPBJ | IATA: | Elevation: 636 feet |
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| History of this Base/Heliport: | | |
Opened in the mid 1960s, to serve as a fair-weather training base for Luftwaffe G91s (and later Alpha Jets) and their crews, Beja was handed back to the Portuguese Air Force and became BA-11 Beja, at the end of 1993. Its remote location makes it ideal as a NATO training and deployment base, as well as being home to PAF units - the first arrived in 1987, with 3 more following in 1993.  |