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Chabua Air Force Station (ICAO: VECA) is an Indian Air Force base located at Chabua of Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam, India.
Chabua Air Force Station (ICAO: VECA) is an Indian Air Force base located at Chabua of Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam, India.
Chabua Air Force Station (ICAO: VECA) is an Indian Air Force base located at Chabua of Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam, India.
Chabua was headquarters for both the Assam and Bengal Wings of the India-China Division, ATC; and the operating base for the flying squadron of the 1333rd AAF Base Unit. The country's eastern sector bordering China got fortified on 8 March 2011, with the induction of the Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft at the Chabua Air Force Station.
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Chabua is a base that has a lot of nostalgia associated with it. The base, close to the Indian North Eastern city of Dibrugarh was built by the English in 1939. During World War II it was a major supply point for the ferrying of supplies to the Nationalists led by the pro-American Generalissimo Chiang-Kai Shek. Once Burma was occupied by the Japane...
The base also saw the feverish activity of porters loading and unloading supplies and boxes for transportation to China. These supplies were brought by rail from Karachi and Calcutta to Chabua. The Americans also built an officer's mess which is improved and used by the IAF. After some time in 1946, the airbase was abandoned until it was reactivate...
Flying was hazardous as it's even now. I have flown from this base but now we have modern NAV equipment. At that time pilots traversing the route had to fly the Kali Gandaki River Gorge, a depression much wider and deeper than the Grand Canyon. The mountains surrounding the gorge were 10,000 feet higher than most of the planes could fly. The pass t...
MG Singh emge (author)from Singapore on November 22, 2019: Thank you Bro for commenting. Life goes on and on and Chubua is a small cog in the wheel, but for many who served there it brings back nostalgic memories manatita44from london on November 22, 2019: Some short-sighted men indeed! You unravel these world changes and their significance so well...
Chabua Air Force Station (ICAO: VECA) is an Indian Air Force base located at Chabua of Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam, India. Currently used as a training airfield, the MiG-21 (FL) fighters assigned train young fighter pilots, thus, enabling a smooth transition to an operational role...
Chabua Air Force Station. This airbase was built by the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) in 1939. It was used by the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) during the Second World War.
