Sidi Slimane AB
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Sidi Slimane Air Base Fifth Royal Air Force Base |
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Moroccan Air Force | ||||||||||
| Location | Sidi Slimane, Morocco | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 179 ft / 55 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°13′50″N 006°03′01″W / 34.23056°N 6.05028°W | ||||||||||
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Sidi Slimane Air Base (ICAO: GMSL) is a military air base in Sidi Slimane, a city in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region in Morocco. It is also known as the Fifth Royal Air Force Base, operated by the Royal Moroccan Air Force.
Built in 1951 by Atlas Construction, Sidi Slimane AB was initially used by Strategic Air Command (SAC) of the United States Air Force as a forward deployment base for B-50 Superfortress and later B-47 Stratojet units deployed from the United States. The base was one of three SAC bases (Boulhaut, Sidi Slimane, Nouasseur) constructed in Morocco in response to the heightened Cold War fears by NATO after the Korean War.
Host unit was the 3906th Air Base Group Later: 3906th Combat Support Group. Facilities expanded in the early 1950s to accommodate jet aircraft and was used by the SAC 5th Air Division as a forward deployment base for B-47 Stratojet and B-36 Peacemaker bombers and support units during the Cold War.
Sidi Slimane was also used by the Seventeenth Air Force (17 AF) of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), which assigned the 324th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron equipped with F-86D Sabres to provide air defense of the USAF bases in Morocco during the 1950s.
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