Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) United States Army (U.S. Army) Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) Pacific Air Forces (USAF)
Site history
Built
1930 (1930)s
In use
1930s-
Battles/wars
World War II First Indochina War
Vietnam War
Airfield information
Identifiers
IATA: DAD, ICAO: VVDN
Elevation
33 feet (10 m) AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
17L/35R
11,483 feet (3,500 m) Asphalt
17R/35L
10,000 feet (3,048 m) Asphalt
Da Nang Air Base (Vietnamese: Căn cứ không quân Đà Nẵng) (1930s–1975) (also known as Da Nang Airfield, Tourane Airfield or Tourane Air Base) was a French Air Force and later Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility located in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam. During the Vietnam War (1959–1975), it was a major base with United States Army, United States Air Force (USAF), and United States Marine Corps (USMC) units stationed there. Air Vietnam also used the facility from 1951 to 1975 for civilian domestic and international flights within Southeast Asia.
DaNang International Airport (IATA: DAD, ICAO: VVDN) is an international airport serving the area of Central Vietnam, especially DaNang, the largest...
DaNang or Danang ( /(ˌ)dɑː, də ˈnæŋ, ˈnɑːŋ/ dah, dəNANG, NAHNG; Vietnamese: ĐàNẵng, [ʔɗaː˨˩ naŋ˦ˀ˥] ) is the fifth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal...
losses. DaNang was a major base area for United States and South Vietnamese military forces supporting operations throughout I Corps. DaNangAirBase was...
Marble Mountain Air Facility (MMAF), also known as DaNang East Airfield, Marble Mountain Army Airfield and Nuoc Man Airfield, was an aviation facility...
regularly scheduled cargo flight by Flying Tiger Line from Los Angeles to DaNangAirBase in South Vietnam, with intermediate stops at San Francisco, Seattle...
PAVN captured DaNang, followed by Quy Nhon on 1 April and Tuy Hòa and Nha Trang on 2 April.: 203 At Phan Rang AirBase, the RVNAF 2nd Air Division continued...
had previously been located at DaNangAirBase, South Vietnam were moved to Nam Phong starting in June 1972 to support air operations to counter the Easter...
bases, and as flight crew and ground crew for flights into and out of DaNangAirBase - all areas that were well-documented as having been sprayed. It wasn't...
of Vietnam (ARVN) base southwest of DaNang in central Vietnam. The base was established on a ridgeline 4 km west of DaNangAirBase. On 7 February 1965...
drawn down at DaNang. On 30 June 1972, the 366th TFW was inactivated at DaNangAirBase, being activated at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand the...
Alpha of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines was landed by helicopter from DaNangAirBase to secure the area. On 13 April a detachment of ten UH-34D helicopters...
stay at Pleiku, the squadron maintained a forward SAR alert unit at DaNangAirBase from 1 April 1968 – 1 September 1969. The squadron was inactivated...
more than 50 122mm rockets at DaNangAirBase destroying a United States Marine Corps (USMC) F-4B and two United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft and damaging...
AB, Pleiku AirBase and DaNangAirBase. In May 1965 the Douglas A-1 Skyraider equipped 522nd Fighter Squadron was activated at the base. As the headquarters...
41st Air Division. On 14 March 1966, the wing was redesignated the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing. Two weeks later, it was organized at DaNangAirBase, South...
Hill 621 or Panama) was a U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Marine base located on Sơn Trà Mountain east of DaNang. The base was located on the peak of Sơn Trà...
the deployment. The Marines' initial assignment was the defense of DaNangAirBase. The first deployment of 3,500 in March 1965 was increased to nearly...
1965, the U.S. 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed at DaNang to protect the DaNangAirBase from possible communist attack. On 6 May units from the...
Krulak, then the commanding general of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. DaNangAirBase was the first major airfield used by the United States Marine Corps...
Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, where it re-equipped with the McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II in 1965. The squadron was deployed to DaNangAirBase, South...