After US forces had left Libya in 1970, Wheelus Air Base, a previous US facility about seven miles from Tripoli, became a Libyan Air Force installation and was renamed Okba Ben Nafi Air Base.

The economy prospered from its oil fields and the presence of the United States Air Force's Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli, but the king's health began to falter and the crown prince assumed a greater role in the government and from time to time acted as regent.

* Dennis H. Shimkoski, program director, AFRTS, Wheelus Air Base, Libya ; graduated 1967.

He was later transferred to Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, where he worked for Armed Forces Radio and Television.

Prior to June 1970, the United States Air Force ( USAF ) used the facility, then known as Wheelus Air Base.

After the USAF left, Wheelus became a Libyan People's Air Force installation and was renamed Okba Ben Nafi Air Base.

The 48 TFW had practiced for years at Wheelus with F-100s and later at Zaragoza AB Spain with F-4D Phantoms and the F-111s for just such a mission.

* Detachment # 3 relocated four H-21s to Wheelus AB, Libya in December 1956 to support gunnery range operations at El Uotia and Tarhuna, and to assist the TM-61 Matador missile launches and flight test programs.

During 1960 the Wheelus helicopters participated in an ongoing long distance rescue mission when they evacuated American and European civilians from the Congo where they were being threatened by rioting native troops.

The 48th frequently deployed to Wheelus AFB, Libya for training.

However, the Detachment at Wheelus was so successful that after the 23d departed France, six of their H-21Bs continued to operate, as part of the 7272d Flying Training Wing.

to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;

* 2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

* 1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

He took two medals, leaving one on the Moon and donating the other to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base museum.

Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an agreement to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of persistent organic pollutants ( POPs ) in order to reduce their transboundary fluxes so as to protect human health and the environment from adverse effects.

At the end of 1979, Sudan Airways had entered into a pooling agreement with Britain's Tradewind Airways to furnish charter cargo service between that country and Khartoum under a subsidiary company, Sudan Air Cargo.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or Their Transboundary Fluxes by at Least 30 % is an agreement to provide for a 30 % reduction in sulphur emissions or transboundary fluxes by 1993.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions is an agreement to provide for a further reduction in sulphur emissions or transboundary fluxes.

Under this agreement, India has deployed 17 Mi-17 helicopters and 150 Indian Army personnel at the Farkhor Air Base with a plan to deploy at least 12 IAF MiG-29s.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their Transboundary Fluxes is an agreement to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of volatile organic compounds in order to reduce their transboundary fluxes so as to protect human health and the environment from adverse effects.

" This activity allowed Sinclair to inform Churchill on 27 January of Air Staff agreement, " subject to the overriding claims " on other targets under the Pointblank Directive, strikes against communications in these cities to disrupt civilian evacuation from the east and troop movement from the west would be made.

These grants were an extension of the Lend-Lease agreement, but not actually part of it, and no loan of ships or other war material was received in return ( although the agreement for the airfield to be constructed in Bermuda was that it be shared with the Royal Air Force ).

As an initial measure, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington negotiated an agreement where up to 25 % of West Point and Annapolis graduates could volunteer to receive their commissions in the newly-established Air Force.

OCH has a contractual agreement with Eagle-Med to provide Air Ambulance services to any local or regional hospital.

Eventually in 1951 Malta Airlines absorbed the operations of Air Malta Ltd and continued operating through an agreement with BEA until 1973.

Under a parallel agreement, the Joint Air Training Scheme, South Africa trained 33, 347 aircrew for the South African Air Force and other Allied air forces.

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995.

The company never made a profit on the service, and terminated it in 1991, following an agreement that one Fokker 50 aircraft was to be sold to Widerøe Norsk Air.

Under this agreement, CAT was allowed to keep its initials and the company was reorganized as Civil Air Transport, Inc.

The airline has a marketing codeshare agreement with Air China to Dalian and Tianjin ; and with Royal Brunei Airlines to Bandar Seri Begawan, to serve these destinations without operating its own aircraft.

Russia and Israel on 10 October 2004 signed a tripartite agreement to equip the Indian Air Force ( IAF ) with EL / W-2090 systems.

Civilian Air Traffic Controllers ' licensing is standardized by international agreement through ICAO.

Concorde later served DFW from 1979 – 1980 in a cooperative agreement between Braniff Airways, British Airways, and Air France.

On April 1, 2010, a press release announced that a lease agreement was reached to allow Pemco to lease the second hangar formerly used by Delta Air Lines.

Nearby lakes and commercial and residential development made expansion impractical, so an agreement was reached between the city of Orlando and the U. S. Air Force in 1962 to use McCoy AFB under a joint civil-military airport arrangement.

Greg wished the Air Corps had continued to camouflage planes.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.

The Air Force / Air Defense Forces had 8, 000 personnel and 90 combat capable aircraft, including 22 fighters, 59 fighter ground attack aircraft and 16 attack helicopters.

The USAF F-15 Eagle had responsibility for overland Combat Air Patrol ( CAP ) duties in Desert Storm in 1991, primarily because of the onboard F-15 IFF capabilities.

Beechcraft was not Beech's first company, as he had previously formed Travel Air in 1924 and the design numbers used at Beechcraft followed the sequence started at Travel Air, and were then continued at Curtiss-Wright, after Travel Air had been absorbed into the much larger company in 1929.

The Air Medal had been adopted two years earlier to raise airmen's morale.

He had been living as a retired US Air Force Colonel in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the time of his death.

Immediately after the war the United States Air Force had 21 different guided missile projects including would-be cruise missiles.

Although the U. S. Air Force sent fighters such as the F-16 to theater in Desert Shield, they had to carry bombs with them as no stores were in place for sustained operations whereas the carriers arrived on scene with full magazines and had support ships to allow them to conduct strikes indefinitely.

On September 24, 2010, District Judge Ronald B. Leighton ruled that Witt's constitutional rights had been violated by her discharge and that she must be reinstated to the Air Force.

Air pollution in New York had risen significantly and exacerbated chest illnesses, such as Thomas had.

The decisions of the Supreme Court in cases such as Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee v. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission ( broadly reading the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act ), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill ( broadly reading the Endangered Species Act ), and, much more recently, Massachusetts v. EPA ( requiring EPA to reconsider regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act ) have had policy impacts far beyond the facts of the particular case.

The Indian Air Force had dismantled the capability of Pakistan Air Force in East Pakistan.