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7,766. Asphalt. Colonel Jesus Villamor Air Base, known simply as Villamor Air Base ( IATA: MNL, ICAO: RPLL ), is the headquarters of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and shares runways with Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). It was formerly known as Nichols Field or Nichols Air Base.
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(Coordinates: 14o30'36 N, 121o0'50 E) The facility first came into existence in 1912 as an underdeveloped US Army Air Corps base, alternately called Nichols Field, part of Camp Nichols. The Japanese took over the facility during World War II and used it as a bomber base.
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The Philippine Air Force (PAF) Museum, Villamor Air Base, Manila, is beside Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. The newly renovated museum opened at this location in June 2007. Col Jesus Villamor Air Base, is the PAF’s first headquarters since it became independent of the Philippine Army on July 1, 1947.
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Villamor Air Base (IATA: MNL, ICAO: RPLL) is home of the Philippine Air Force. It is chiefly used as an air base for PAF transport and helicopter flights. It is also the military base that the Philippine president uses when departing for foreign or domestic trips abroad, though foreign departures are mostly done at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The air base is named in honor of a Filipino pilot, Jesús A. Villamor, who fought during World War II.
The Runways of this base are also used by Ninoy Aquino International Airport
The base was originally called Nichols Field during the time of the Philippine Commonwealth period and later as Nichols Air Base after Philippine independence. The complex also includes the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. In 1997, the base was reduced to a small portion to make way for the construction of NAIA Terminal 3 and Newport City.
In 2007, a Skyway exit to both the air base and NAIA Terminal 3 was completed.
In 2010, the AVSECOM van (called by some as Ninoy Aquino's death van) which had carried the body of Ninoy Aquino just after his assassination in 1983 to the hospital, was found rotting inside Nichols air base (now called Villamor Air base), Manila. This was reported in the popular ABS CBN news program 24 Oras and ABS CBN Online News. Photos of this "death van" were subsequently posted on the internet by the Filipino investigative journalist Raissa Robles. The following units are Stationed at Villamor Airbase
•250th Presidential Airlift Wing
•520th Airbase Wing
•505th Search and Rescue Group
Military Bases of the Philippines
Camps/Forts
•Emilio Aguinaldo (Quezon City, Metro Manila)
•Camp Emilio Jacinto (Santa Cruz, Laguna)
•Andres Bonifacio (Taguig, Metro Manila)
•Rigoberto Atienza (Quezon City, Metro Manila)
The Philippine Air Force Aerospace Museum is an aerospace museum located within the premises of Colonel Jesus Villamor Air Base in Pasay, Philippines. [1] History. The museum was founded as the Marcos Museum in 2 May 1974. [2] . The museum at its current location opened in June 2007. [3] Exhibits.
Villamor Airbase, Pasay City. Tel.: 854-6720; 854-6701-10 TL; Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines - The Official Gazette is the official journal of the Republic of the Philippines. Edited at the Office of the President of the Philippines Under Commonwealth Act No. 638.
