Belém Air Force Base | |
Native Name: | Portuguese: Base Aérea de Belém|italic=yes |
Country: | Brazil |
Type: | Air Force Base |
Coordinates: | -1.3847°N -48.4789°W |
Pushpin Map: | Brazil Belém#Pará#Brazil |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brazil |
Pushpin Label: | SBBE |
Ownership: | Brazilian Air Force |
Open To Public: | No |
Code: | ALA9 |
Current Commander: | Cel. Av. Ricardo Bevilaqua Mendes |
Occupants: |
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Iata: | BEL |
Icao: | SBBE |
Lid: | PA0001 |
Elevation: | 17m (56feet) |
R1-Number: | 06/24 |
R1-Length: | 2800m (9,200feet) |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 02/20 |
R2-Length: | 1830m (6,000feet) |
R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Sources: DECEA[1] |
Base Aérea de Belém – ALA9 is a base of the Brazilian Air Force, located in Belém, Brazil.
It shares some facilities with Val-de-Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport.
Belém Air Force Base has its origins on the 7th Aviation Regiment created on 30 June 1936. The provisory facility was located in the neighborhood ou Souza and it was only in 1938 that the construction of an aerodrome in the neighborhood of Val-de-Cans begun. The Air Force Base was created on 21 August 1944 by Decree 6,814.[2]
Starting in 1958, with the creation of the Correio Aéreo Nacional da Amazônia in Belém, an Air Force organization focused in integration and humanitarian services, the Base gained vital importance as a base for the integration of the Amazonian region with the rest of the country.[3]
The following units are based at Belém Air Force Base:
The base is located 12 km from downtown Belém.
This gallery displays aircraft that are or have been based at Belém. The gallery is not comprehensive.