Air Base 115 Orange-Caritat (french: Base aérienne 115 Orange-Caritat "Capitaine de Seyne" or ''BA 115'', ) is a

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(Armée de l'air et de l'espace) base in

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. It is equipped with one runway and was named after Maurice de Seynes, a French-Soviet aircraft pilot. It is located east of Orange, a ''

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'' in the

Vaucluse Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; or , ; commonly shortened to PACA; en, Provence-Alps-French Riviera, italic=yes; also branded as Région Sud) is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, the far southeastern on the mainland. Its pre ...

region in

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. It hosts: *

Escadron de Chasse 2/5 Île-de-France Escadron de Chasse 2/5 Île-de-France (Fighter Squadron 2/5 Île-de-France) is a French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'air et de l'espace) fighter squadron currently stationed at BA 115 Orange-Caritat Air Base and equipped with the Dassault ...

Dassault Mirage 2000 The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine, fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (''A ...

B & C * Escadron d'Hélicoptères 5/67 Alpilles -

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* Centre d'Instruction des Equipages d'Hélicoptères 341 Colonel Alexis Santini - Fennec * a permanent Dépôt atelier munitions spécialisées detachment; this is a headquarters unit responsible for all special ammunition storage in France. * escadron de défense sol-air 10.950 the base air defense unit. * etablissement logistique du commissariat de l’air de Portes-les –valence, a logistic unit. * a guard detachment

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responsible for ground defense and base security.

References

External links

Base aérienne 115 Orange
official website
BA 115
at

website
Escadron de Chasse 01.005 Vendée

Escadron de Chasse 02.005 IIe de France

Photos of Orange-Caritat Air Base
* * {{authority control French Air and Space Force bases Vaucluse Military airbases established in 1939