The Incirlik Airbase, a regional storage center in NATO's Southern Region, has a USAF staff of ~4,000, with several hundred British and Turkish personnel attached (-late 2002) (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/incirlik.htm). The primary unit stationed here is the 39th Air & Space Expeditionary Wing. The base is located 12 km east of Adana and 56 km from the Mediterranean Sea (37°00'N35°26'E). There are ~36 fighterjets and assorted support/surveillance planes based here. The airbase has a 3,050 mrunway, a 2,740 m runway, and 57 hardened aircraft shelters.
The IncirlikAirbase, a regional storage center in NATO's Southern Region, has a USAF staff of ~4,000, with several hundred British and Turkish personnel attached (-late 2002) (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/incirlik.htm).
The flying mission at Incirlik further diversified in 1970 when the Turkish Air Force agreed to allow U.S. Air Forces in Europe to use its air-to-ground range at 240 km northwest Konya, providing a suitable training area for squadrons deployed to Incirlik.
The 39th Air and Space Expeditionary Wing was activated at Incirlik AB on September 15, 1997, to support and command USAF assets deployed to Incirlik supporting ONW.
Incirlik served as a main hub of humanitarian airlift operations to Afghanistan, MC-130 special operations missions, KC-135 refueling missions and sustainment operations for deployed forces.
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