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Basa Air Base

Floridablanca, Philippines

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Floridablanca · PAM · Philippines

Position

14.987°, 120.493° · 151 ft elev.

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Primary Philippine Air Force tactical fighter base in Central Luzon.

Opened

1930s

Location

Floridablanca, Philippines

Basa Air Base is a military airfield operated by the Philippine Air Force, located in Floridablanca, Pampanga, in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. It serves as one of the PAF's key tactical air command installations and has historically been the home of fighter aviation units. The base is situated near the former Clark Air Base and has played a strategic role in Philippine national defense. It hosts the 5th Fighter Wing of the Philippine Air Force, which operates the country's jet fighter aircraft. The base is not open to commercial air traffic and has no civilian passenger facilities.

Getting to & from

The base is accessible by road from Floridablanca town proper and is within roughly an hour's drive of Angeles City and the Clark Freeport Zone.

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›Home of the Philippine Air Force's 5th Fighter Wing.
›The base has operated jet fighter aircraft including the F-86 Sabre and later the F-5 Freedom Fighter.
›Located in Pampanga province, approximately 80 km north of Manila.
›The base is a restricted military installation with no civilian or commercial aviation operations.
›Nearby Mount Pinatubo's 1991 eruption caused significant disruption to aviation operations in the region.

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Cesar Basa Air Base, or simply Basa Air Base, is an airbase currently operated by the Philippine Air Force. It is located at Floridablanca, Pampanga about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Metro Manila in the Philippines. It is named after César Basa, one of the pioneer fighter pilots of the Philippine Air Force.

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