Air base 112 Rheims-Champagne

The Air base 112 Rheims-Champagne of the French Air force is located at a few kilometers in the north of Rheims in the department of the Marne ().

Presentation

The air base of Rheims, heiress long and very rich aeronautical tradition of Rheims, figure among the most important aeronautical platforms available to the Air force. A special place justified in particular by the importance of its manpower, the number of its apparatuses and the variety of its missions.

Located at a few kilometers in the north of the agglomeration rémoise, Air base 112 extends on a surface from 542 Hectare S which, enclosed in 13600 meters of fences, are distributed between the communes of Bétheny, from Courcy, Brimont and Witry-the-Rheims. Directed East-West, its track, with “format NATO”, has a length bordering the 2400 meters which makes it possible air base to accommodate a very large variety of apparatuses. Air base 112 depend ten sites known as “attached isolated points”, in particular with Rheims the office air force information, the military detachment of coordination working within the Center on the way of the aerial navigation and celebrates it Cercle of the officer S “Marine Meslée” giving on the place of the Republic. Out of Rheims, in a ray of a hundred kilometers around air base, the station of communication of Perthes, the section air-to-ground field of fire of Suippes-Sommepy, the site of the old ammunition dump of Nogent-l' Abbess, the old air base of Vouziers-Séchault where are evaluated units specialized in the neutralization of the explosives and the companies of the Genius of the Air, as well as old air bases now unused of Montmédy-Marville and Marigny, also concern the B.A. 112.

Third employer of the agglomeration rémoise after the university hospital and the municipal services, it employs approximately 1700 Militaire S - which are divided into Officier S, Sous-officier S and soldiers of the row - and a hundred personnel Civil S. major Acteur of local economic development, its annual total economic impact is evaluated with several tens of million euros.

The aeronautical platform of Rheims shelters since 1994 the Escadron of recognition 1/33 Belfort and 2/33 Savoy, squadrons which belong to the Air force of combat on which also on the B.A. 112 two other units depend: the Squadron of technical support specialized 2E.033 in charge with the repair and the maintenance of the planes of the B.A. 112 and the engineering team Unit of specialized instruction F1 Mirage. Adding up forty aircraft, these two squadrons are equipped with Mirage F1, apparatus whose first version service entrance in 1973 the air force. Twenty Mirage F1 CR, reconnaissance aircraft tactical and conventional attack, equip each of the two squadrons with recognition 01.033 “Belfort” and 02.033 “Savoy”.

The main mission entrusted to the B.A. 112 is to ensure the support of the squadrons and units stationed on his platform. The air recognition is thus the operational main mission which falls on the air base, which thus plays a part of first importance in the execution of the missions entrusted to the air force, in particular in the fields of the prevention of the crises, of the projection of forces and protection. Other missions, specific or falling under the duration, are added to this one and make it possible at the State to face, while resorting to the means and know-how of the armed forces, with situations which the public services could not only answer. And thus the B.A. 112 intervenes in fields as varied as the fight against the Terrorisme by the constitution of detachments deployed in the framework of the Plan Vigipirate, the logistic support with the donation of organs by its capacity to constantly reactivate its track with the profit of a medical team of the French Etablissement of the Clerc's Offices dispatched in Rheims to carry out a taking away there, the assistance with the populations disaster victims in exceptional situations of crisis such as the storm of December 1999 or the floods of 2001 in the Somme.

The activity of Air base 112 moreover is marked by a very important relational activity. Its commander, in addition commander of weapons of the place of Rheims, takes part in many military ceremonies organized locally while air base, anxious to develop the bonds linking the armies with the nation, leads a certain number of actions bound for the public, among whom the organization of visits of its installations, the participation in cultural events such as the operation “Lira in Festival” or the European Days of the Inheritance (via the Musée of Air base 112 and local Aeronautics) and the organization of an important forum employment.

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