BASE HISTORY
Florennes Air Base officially known as " Base Jean Offe mately 102 km south of Brussels , coordinates are 50 ° the home of the 2nd Tactical Wing , part of the Air C Armed Forces . One of two fighter wings operating th Fighting Falcon .
The Wing consists of the 1st Squadron " Stingers " that h their symbol and the 350th Squadron . Both of the squa ciete Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aeronautiques cence from General Dynamics ( now Lockheed-Martin F100 engines were manufactured by Techspace Aero , f National . Currently there is a competition between the Typhoon to replace the F-16 fleet . Decision should be ta
Florennes Air Base can trace back its origins to the mi tion flourished in the region . The actual air base constr ganisation for the German Luftwaffe in the early days o Ju 87 bombers and Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters in su German advance stopped and the Allied mostly RAF b the Germans more frequently from March 1943 onward and Junkers Ju 88C6B and Ju 88G night fighters op They were supplemented by Focke-Wulf Fw 190A8 d 1943 , to combat the USAAF bombers , which operated b Germans decided to withdraw and blew-up most of the officially it was liberated by American troops in Sept nated as " A-78 " by them .
On September 16 , 1944 , the first US Army Air Force Squadron with the Northrop P-61 Black Widow and Do from Chateaudun , France . They were joined on Sept Fighter Group , equipped with Lockheed P-38 Lightnin FG , also with the P-38 . In late January 1945 , the 370 FG , operating the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt , until units left . In April 1945 the 344th Bombardment Group 26 Marauders took their place until September 1945 , w pletely abandoned by the US Forces . The first Belgia when a detachment of 60 people were assigned to guard which still required much needed repairs and rebuild .