Naha Air Base (那覇基地, Naha Kichi), formally known as the Kōkū Jieitai Naha Kichi (航空自衛隊那覇基地), is an air base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force formerly under control of the United States Air Force. It is located at Naha Airport on the Oroku Peninsula in Naha, Okinawa, Japan.[2][3]
For the civil use of this facility, see Naha Airport.
Airport
Naha Air Base
PACAF 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-102 interceptors on the flight line, 1966
Naha Airfield was constructed in 1933 as Oroku Naval Air Base, an air base of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). In 1936 control of the air base was transferred to the Japanese Ministry of Communications and formally renamed Naha Airfield. In 1942 control of the air base again reverted to the IJN, which reverted the name of the installation to Oroku Naval Air Base. The facility was captured by the United States during World War II in the Battle of Okinawa on 1 April 1945.[2]
US period
After World War II the installation became a major United States Air Force (USAF) base under the operational control of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), and was known as Naha Air Base (Naha AB). The installation became a joint military-civilian air field in 1954 with the resumption of civilian air service between Tokyo and Okinawa. The USAF ended its use of Naha AB on 31 May 1971 and control of civil aviation was transferred to the Japanese Ministry of Transportation, which established Naha Airport on the site; control of the military air field was officially transferred to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force in 1979.[2]
Post-US period
Japanese F-15s have been stationed there, with a second squadron of F-15s added in 2014.[4]
Flight of 8 aircraft attached to 347th Provisional Fighter Group (All Weather), Itazuke Air Base, Japan, 27 June – 5 July 1950 for combat missions in Korea
Attached to: 6302d Air Base Group, 20 September 1950
Attached to: 6351st Air Base Wing, 25 June 1951–16 February 1953[5][6]
The Okinawa Prefectural Police, and the Japan Coast Guard also utilize facilities at Naha Airport.
As of 2013, funding in the region of ¥0.3billion has been requested for preparing the base to host JASDF E-2C aircraft, including ¥70million for new repair and maintenance facilities.[7]
"那覇空港"[Naha Airport]. Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2013. OCLC173191044. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
"那覇基地 | [JASDF] 航空自衛隊" 基地紹介[Naha Air Base | [JASDF] Air Self-Defense Force] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Ministry of Defense. 2012. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
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