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Azores Air Zone Command

Comando da Zona Aérea dos Açores
(Azores Air Zone Command)
Active 1956
Country  Portugal
Branch Air Force
Part of Operational Command (COFA)
Garrison/HQ Air Base No. 4
Motto(s) "Nós outros, cuja fama tanto voa" ("We, whose fame flies high")

Azores Air Zone Command (Portuguese: Comando da Zona Aérea dos Açores, ZAA) is a Portuguese Air Force air zone command.

The Azores Air Zone (ZAA) was created in 1956 with Air Base No. 4 under its dependency and the following missions:

From 1977 to 1995, the ZAA Command's designation was changed to Azores Air Command (Portuguese: Comando Aéreo dos Açores, CAA), during which period of time, the commander of the CAA executed simultaneously the functions of commander of Air Base No. 4.

On July 1995, the two functions are made independent once again, and on October of that year the CAA is disbanded and the Azores Air Zone Command was reactivated.

The Azores Commander between 1990. And 1993 was not Fernanres Vasques Osorio but Antonio Jose Vasques Osorio...


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