Orange-Caritat Air Base
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Orange Caritat is a tiny French Air Force
base equipped with one runway and named after Capitaine de Seyne. Its location is 5 km east of Orange
, a commune
of the département of Vaucluse
in France
.
It hosts:
French Air Force
The French Air Force , literally Army of the Air) is the air force of the French Armed Forces. It was formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the French Army, then was made an independent military arm in 1933...
base equipped with one runway and named after Capitaine de Seyne. Its location is 5 km east of Orange
Orange, Vaucluse
Orange is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.It has a primarily agricultural economy...
, a commune
Communes of the Vaucluse département
The following is a list of the 151 communes of the Vaucluse département, in France. Agglomeration community of Greater Avignon, created in 2001, also partially in the Gard department....
of the département of Vaucluse
Vaucluse
The Vaucluse is a department in the southeast of France, named after the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.- History :Vaucluse was created on 12 August 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes...
in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
It hosts:
- 01.005 strike sqn Vendée (escadron de chasse 01.005) and 02.005 strike sqn Ile de France (escadron de chasse 02.005) equipped with the Dassault Mirage 2000 RDI and B/C types. The RDI to carry out allweather air defense missions, and the B/C types for pilot transition and training purposes.
- a permanent Dépôt atelier munitions spécialisées (DAMS) detachment; this is a headquarters unit responsible for all Special Ammunition Storages in France.
- 10.950 air defense sqn (escadron de défense sol-air 10.950) the base air defense unit.
- etablissement logistique du commissariat de l’air de Portes-les –valence, a logistic unit.
- a guard detachment fusiliers commandos de l’air responsible for ground defense and base security.