Balıkesir Airport is a public/military airport in the city center of
Balıkesir
Balıkesir () is a city in the Marmara Region, Marmara region of Turkey. It is the seat of Balıkesir Province, which is also a Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality. As of 2022, the population of Balıkesir Province ...
, Turkey.
No available flights operate from the airport. A new terminal building opened in 2020.
Military usage
Balıkesir is home to the 9th Air Wing (''Ana Jet Üs'' or ''AJÜ'') of the 1st Air Force Command (''Hava Kuvvet Komutanligi'') of the
Turkish Air Force
The Turkish Air Force () is the Air force, air and space force of the Turkish Armed Forces. It traces its origins to 1 June 1911 when it was founded as the Ottoman Aviation Squadrons, Aviation Squadrons by the Ottoman Empire. It was composed ...
(''Türk Hava Kuvvetleri''). Other wings of this command are located in
Eskişehir
Eskişehir ( , ; from 'old' and 'city') is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 821 315 (Odunpazari + Tebebasi), with a metropolitan population of 921 630.
The city is l ...
(LTBI),
Konya
Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...
(LTAN),
Ankara Akıncı (LTAE) and
Bandırma
Bandırma ()Greek: Panormos(Πανορμος)is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, northwestern Turkey. Its area is 755 km2, and its population is 167,363 (2024). Bandırma is located in the south of the Marmara Sea, in the ...
(LTBG).
TUSLOG Detachment 184 used to be stationed here during the
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
, supporting any required nuclear strike operations by the 191 and 192 Filos with the
Lockheed F-104G/S. Some 25 nuclear weapons were reportedly stored at the base.
[ William M. Arkin and Richard M. Fieldhouse, "Nuclear Battlefields," 1985, p233; Duke, USMF & Installations in Europe, 1989.]
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See also
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Balıkesir Koca Seyit Airport
Balıkesir Koca Seyit Airport , previously known as Balıkesir Edremit Körfez Airport, is an airport located south of Edremit in the Balıkesir Province of Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located ...
, in
Balıkesir Province
Balıkesir Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, Aegean. Its area is 14,583 km ...
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Airports in Turkey
Turkish Air Force bases
Military in Balıkesir
Buildings and structures in Balıkesir Province
Transport in Balıkesir Province
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