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    Lajes Field or Lajes Air Base (pronounced [ˈlaʒɨʃ]; Portuguese: Base Aérea das Lajes), officially designated Air Base No. 4 (Base Aérea Nº 4, BA4) (IATA:...
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  • Lajes Airport (IATA: TER, ICAO: LPLA) is located in the parish and Vila das Lajes, in the municipality of Praia da Vitória, on Terceira Island, in the...
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  • Lajes is Portuguese for "covering of flat rock", or "flagstone", and may refer to: Lajes, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte Lages, Santa Catarina...
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  • and extending existing facilities at Lajes. Air Transport Command transport planes began landing at Lajes Field immediately after the agreement was signed...
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    Terceira, named Lajes Field. This air base is in an area called Lajes, a broad, flat sea terrace that had been a large farm. Lajes Field is a plateau rising...
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    65th Air Base Group is a group of the United States Air Force based at Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal. The group provides base and en route support for the...
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  • The United States Forces Azores (USAFORAZ) is based at Lajes Field, Portugal near Lajes on Terceira Island in the Azores. In 1953, the U.S. Forces Azores...
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    Fontainhas, Canada das Vinhas, Canada do Poço, Lajedo, Lajes, Picão, Rebentão and Santa Rita. Lajes is best known for being the location of Portuguese Air...
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    highlighted by two great faults in the northeast corner (the Lajes and the Fontinhas faults), the Lajes Graben has been responsible for severe seismic events...
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    crewmember. 11 December 1977: USN P-3B BuNo 153428 from VP-11 operating from Lajes Field, Azores crashed on mountainous El Hierro (southwesternmost of the Canary...
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  • the Lajes Field; e) Use of facilities for planes of the British Commonwealth in the field of Rabo de Peixe on the island of São Miguel as a field site...
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    March 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2008. "Lajes Field History – 1973 Arab-Israeli Conflict and More". Lajes Field. United States Air Force. Archived from...
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    (on the island of São Miguel), and the airfields of Lajes Field (on Terceira Island) and Santana Field (on São Miguel Island). In November 1943, the British...
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  • Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (Hickam Air Force Base), Hawaii, USA Lajes Global, Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal Lincoln Receiver Site (aka West Coast Global)...
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    History of the Azores (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from February 2018)
    currently known as Lajes Field. It was founded in an area called Lajes, a broad, flat sea terrace that had been a farm. Lajes Field is a plateau rising...
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    the Atlantic Ocean after departure from RAF Lakenheath for a flight to Lajes Field in the Azores. The aircraft was on a Military Air Transport Service flight...
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    struck Terceira Island, producing wind gusts of 82 mph (132 km/h) at Lajes Field. September 30, 1992 - Just days after the previous storm, Tropical Storm...
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    Netherlands. Portugal permitted the United States to use the leased base of Lajes Field in the Azores, and the defence minister of the Netherlands, apparently...
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    remaining VB-114 aircraft and crews at NAF Port Lyautey were relocated to Lajes Field in the Azores between 20 July and 1 August 1944, leaving no squadrons...
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    (on the island of São Miguel), and the airfields of Lajes Field (on Terceira Island) and Santana Field (on São Miguel Island). From November 1943, when the...
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    Logistics Group (4th MLG) (MARFORRES) (New Orleans, LA) 65th Air Base Wing (Lajes Field, Azores) Combined Force Space Component Command, Vandenberg Space Force...
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    stationed in Europe were routed through Lajes and soon over thirty aircraft per day were moving through Lajes. To accommodate this, the base grew to house...
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    operated from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Keflavik, Iceland; Zaragosa, Spain; Lajes Field, Azores; Sigonella NAS, Italy; and Hellenikon, Greece. The unit retained...
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    in the Azores, poor weather conditions resulted in a plane crash at Lajes Field, killing 68 people. Collectively, the tropical cyclones of this season...
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    Chièvres Air Base Ghedi Air Base Izmir Air Station Kleine Brogel Air Base Lajes Field Łask Air Base Morón Air Base RAF Akrotiri RAF Alconbury RAF Fairford...
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  • summer of 1984, Lajes Field in the Azores undertook a new mission known as "SILK PURSE." Boeing EC-135s began operating out of Lajes Field as an airborne...
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  • Airport, the historical hub of commercial air transport. Lajes Field, the primary military services field, also serving civilian aviation. Ponta Delgada (Nordela)...
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    Morón Air Base, Spain. The 496 ABS is part of the 65th Air Base Group, Lajes Field, Portugal under the 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The...
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    theater of operations in the world. The squadron was first activated at Lajes Field in the Azores in November 1952 as the 57th Air Rescue Squadron in a reorganization...
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    RAF Fairford and RAF Alconbury in the United Kingdom; Moron AB, Spain; Lajes Field, Azores (Portugal); Diego Garcia, BIOT; and the former NAS Keflavik,...
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