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Vietnam & Southeast Asia · from 1955

Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base

Royal Thai Air Force base near Nakhon Ratchasima.

History

Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base or Nakhon Ratchasima Royal Thai Air Force Base is a base of the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) in northeast Thailand, approximately 200 km (125 mi) northeast of Bangkok and about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the centre of the city of Nakhon Ratchasima in the Nakhon Ratchasima Province (also known as "Khorat" or "Korat"), the largest province in Thailand.

During the Vietnam War, from 1962 to 1975, Korat RTAFB was a front-line facility of the United States Air Force (USAF) in Thailand.

During the 1980s and early-1990s, the airfield was jointly operated as a civil airport for Nakhon Ratchasima. This ended with the opening of Nakhon Ratchasima Airport in the early-1990s.

Text from Wikipedia: Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, CC BY-SA 4.0, lightly trimmed.

Key dates

  1. 1965
    In 1965, the 6234th TFW and its subordinate units operating F-100s, F-105s, and F-4Cs flew 10,797 sorties totalling 26,165 hours.
  2. 1966
    The 44th TFS returned to Kadena AB, Okinawa and assignment to the 18th TFW, but on 31 December 1966, it became only a paper organization without aircraft.
  3. 1967
    On 23 April 1967, the 421st TFS was re-designated the 44th Tactical Fighter Squadron.
  4. 1967
    Combat reconnaissance missions of the 552d resumed on 25 November 1967.
  5. 1971
    The squadron was redesignated the 17th Wild Weasel Squadron on 1 December 1971.
  6. 1973
    Congressional pressure in Washington grew against these bombings, and on 30 June 1973, the United States Congress passed Public law PL 93-50 and 93-52, which cut off all funds for combat in Cambodia and all of Indochina effective 15 August 1973.
  7. 1974
    The EC-130s and personnel of 7th ACCS were transferred to the 374th Tactical Airlift Wing at Clark Air Base, Philippines on 22 May 1974.
  8. 1975
    On 23 December 1975, the 388th TFW and its remaining squadron, the 34th TFS, transferred to Hill AFB, Utah.
  9. 2003
    102 Squadron flies 15 F-16A-15ADF and one F-16B-15ADF Fighting Falcon air defense airplanes acquired from the USAF and delivered to the RTAF in 2003 and 2004.

Dates and events quoted from the same Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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