Major Alistair Stocker told the inquest the airbase at Basra was "like a small city" and very busy.
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There are 16 buildings on the airbase, including former radar rooms, tennis and squash courts, station headquarters and the old officers' mess.
The exhibition, which also includes video and audio interviews, looks at the different jobs at the airbase, the living conditions and how people spent their leisure time.
The exhibition, which will open at the airbase on 28 March, tells the stories of people who lived and worked there during World War II and the Cold War.
Following the incident at the Lincolnshire airbase, the RAF grounded all non-essential flying of all Hawk T1 aircraft fitted with the Mk10 Martin Baker-built ejection seat for one month "as a precaution".
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During the 1980s, Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) fitted with nuclear warheads were stationed at the US airbase at Greenham Common in the UK, causing a storm of protest.
To take one example, a kilometre from the Bagram airbase, and just off the main road, a crowd gathered recently as the bodies of three Afghan soldiers were carefully dragged clear.
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The helicopters lift off from the Kandahar airbase and head to Zargaran, stopping halfway, where more choppers carrying regular Afghan army soldiers join the operation.
The Taleban still control the hills to the north of the capital, above the Bagram airbase.
There, a U.S. C-9 transport would pick the three up and transfer them to the American airbase in Ramstein, Germany.
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Another key figure identified on the video is Abu-Yahya al-Libbi, who escaped from US custody at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan two years ago.
In January, 2009 there was another series of network attacks during a time of political opposition to the Bakiyev regime as well as the closing of the Manas airbase.
The first of the two C17s left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday and was loaded with French armoured vehicles and other equipment at the Evreux airbase in Normandy overnight.
His secret dash to Afghanistan and speech from the Bagram airbase (speaking at 4am local time in order to hit prime-time TV back home) suggests that Mr Obama has decided to squeeze every ounce of electoral advantage from it.
But even allowing for seasonal adjustments, Tony Blair must be wondering what he has done to earn the scorn dumped on him after his own return this week from a visit to India, Pakistan and, fleetingly, the Bagram airbase outside Kabul.
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An Angus airfield is marking 100 years after becoming the first military airbase to be established in the United Kingdom.
The Karshi-Khanabad airbase loaned to the U.S. gave them easy access to Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion and the Foreign Office was keen to maintain a relationship with Karimov.
Turkey did allow the use of an airbase to supply the war, but escaped the opprobrium heaped on America's Arab allies who grudgingly lent support to the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
France has its eye on the nearby military airbase, a highly strategic facility which it built in the 1950s.
The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
The next day, during an unsuccessful rescue at a NATO airbase, the other nine were killed.
The stretch from the old US airbase of Khe Sanh north to Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is a beauty, including a wide section that was apparently a secret jungle landing strip for MIG fighters during the war.
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The group outside West Sussex council offices in Crawley want the government to let them return to Diego Garcia, which became a US airbase in the 1970s.
The plane came down shortly after take-off and crashed within the boundaries of the huge US-run airbase, said a Nato spokesperson at the base.
On the other hand, our big airbase in southeastern Turkey, Incirlik, is the key staging area for logistics in northern Iraq.
One option would be to kick the Americans out from the strategically located Incirlik airbase.
The RAF has provided air traffic control support for Newquay airport until now because the RAF St Mawgan airbase is next door.
Our force operated in the night, so I typically woke in the late morning, and did an hour-long run along the runways at Balad Airbase.
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Mr White, who was hired to help guard Shindand airbase in the western Afghan province of Herat, was killed in 2007 by a rival Afghan security contractor.
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