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538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron
The 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron is provisional unit of United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, and is currently located at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan. Overview The squadron was activated by United States Air Forces Central Command. Since November 2009, Airmen have been assessing, training, advising, and assisting Afghan pilots, loadmasters, and engineers on training, tactics, and procedures on C-27A, C-130H and Cessna 208 aircraft. Advisors have a goal to pass on to the Afghan airmen the skills to transport cargo, people and assets vital to their security. The squadron is part of the air component of NATO's Train Advise Assist Command (TAAC-Air). History Lineage * Constituted as the 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron on 23 October 2008 : Activated on 1 November 2008 Assignments * 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group The United States Air Force's 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group (438 AEAG) is assigned to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Air Forces Central
The Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is the Air Force Service Component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a joint Department of Defense combatant command responsible for U.S. security interests in 27 nations that stretch from the Horn of Africa through the Persian Gulf region, into Central Asia. Activated as 9th Air Force on 8 April 1942, the command fought in World War II both in the Western Desert Campaign in Egypt and Libya and as the tactical fighter component of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe, engaging enemy forces in France, the Low Countries and in Nazi Germany. During the Cold War, it was one of two Numbered Air Forces of Tactical Air Command. Co-designated as United States Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) on 1 January 1983, on 2009 as part of a complicated transfer of lineage, the lineage and history of the Ninth Air For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control. The United States Air Force is a military service branch organized within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The Air Force through the Department of the Air Force is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
438th Air Expeditionary Wing
The 438th Air Expeditionary Wing was a United States Air Force unit operating in Afghanistan and assigned to United States Air Forces Central. The wing trained Afghan Air Force members, including pilots. Subordinate units * 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group (Kabul International Airport) ** 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (Mi-17 and Mi-35 training) ** 439th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (mission support advisors) ** 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (maintenance advisors) ** 538th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, (C-208, C-130) * 738th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group (Kandahar Airfield) ** 441st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (Mi-17 training) ** 442d Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (Mi-17 training) There was formerly a third group active at Shindand Airfield: * 838th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group ** 801st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (helicopters) ** 802d Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (training trainers and maintaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabul Airport
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United States Air Forces Central Command
The Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. It is the Air Force Service Component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a joint Department of Defense combatant command responsible for U.S. security interests in 27 nations that stretch from the Horn of Africa through the Persian Gulf region, into Central Asia. Activated as 9th Air Force on 8 April 1942, the command fought in World War II both in the Western Desert Campaign in Egypt and Libya and as the tactical fighter component of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe, engaging enemy forces in France, the Low Countries and in Nazi Germany. During the Cold War, it was one of two Numbered Air Forces of Tactical Air Command. Co-designated as United States Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) on 1 January 1983, on 2009 as part of a complicated transfer of lineage, the lineage and history of the Ninth Air F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group
The United States Air Force's 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group (438 AEAG) is assigned to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing of USAFCENT and is stationed at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan. The 438th Air Expeditionary Group stood up on in November 2008 at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan to train fixed and rotary wing aircrew and maintenance me. History Global War On Terrorism The 438th Air Expeditionary Group was activated as part of the Global War On Terror in 2008. Lineage * Constituted as the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group on 23 October 2008 : Activated on 1 November 2008 Assignments * 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, 2008–present Components * 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron - renamed 311th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, February 2016, to follow in the traditions of No. 311 (Czech) Squadron RAF under Czech Air Force command. The 311 Squadron was disbanded in February 2019. * 439th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron * 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory Sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C-27A Spartan
The Aeritalia G.222 (formerly Fiat Aviazione, later Alenia Aeronautica) is a medium-sized STOL military transport aircraft. It was developed to meet a NATO specification, but Italy was initially the only NATO member to adopt the type. The United States purchased a small number of G.222s, designating them the C-27A Spartan. A modernised variant, the Alenia C-27J Spartan, has been developed. While it retains many aspects of the original aircraft, the C-27J adopts the same engines and many of the systems used on the larger Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules. Development Origins In 1962, NATO issued a specification for a V/STOL transport aircraft ( NATO Basic Military Requirement 4), capable of supporting dispersed V/STOL fighters. Fiat's design team, led by Giuseppe Gabrielli, produced a design to meet this requirement, designated ''G.222''; it was to be powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engines and with six to eight Rolls-Royce RB162 lift engines to give VTO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C-208
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a utility aircraft produced by Cessna. The project was commenced on November 20, 1981, and the prototype first flew on December 9, 1982. The production model was certified by the FAA in October 1984 and its Cargomaster freighter variant was developed for FedEx. The longer 208B Super Cargomaster first flew in 1986 and was developed into the passenger 208B Grand Caravan. The strutted, high wing 208 typically seats nine passengers in its unpressurized cabin, is powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A tractor turboprop and has a fixed tricycle landing gear, floats, or skis. As of November 2017, 2,600 had been delivered and 20 million flight hours logged. Caravans have been used for flight training, commuter airlines, VIP transport, air cargo, and humanitarian missions. Development On November 20, 1981, the project was given a go-ahead by Cessna for its Pawnee engineering facility. John Berwick, chief engineer at Pawnee, conceived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C-130H Hercules
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed Corporation, Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, Medical evacuation, medevac, and Cargo aircraft, cargo transport aircraft. The versatile airframe has found uses in other roles, including as a gunship (AC-130), for airborne infantry, airborne assault, search and rescue, scientific research support, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol, and aerial firefighting. It is now the main tactical airlifter for many military forces worldwide. More than 40 variants of the Hercules, including civilian versions marketed as the Lockheed L-100, operate in more than 60 nations. The C-130 entered service with the U.S. in 1956, followed by Australia and many other nations. During its years of service, the Hercules has participated in numerous milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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