Belém Air Force Base

For the civilian use of this facility and airport information, see Belém/Val-de-Cans International Airport.

Base Aérea de Belém – ALA9 (IATA: BEL, ICAO: SBBE) is a base of the Brazilian Air Force, located in Belém, Brazil.

Belém Air Force Base
Base Aérea de Belém
Belém, Pará in Brazil
Site information
Type	Air Force Base
Code	ALA9
Owner	Brazilian Air Force
Controlled by	Brazilian Air Force
Open to the public	No
Website	www.fab.mil.br/organizacoes/mostra/511
Location
SBBE Location in Brazil Show map of Belém SBBE SBBE (Pará) Show map of Pará SBBE SBBE (Brazil) Show map of Brazil
Coordinates	01°23′05″S 048°28′44″W
Site history
Built	1938 (1938)
In use	1944-present
Garrison information
Current commander	Cel. Av. Ricardo Bevilaqua Mendes
Occupants	1st Squadron of the 3rd Aviation Group 1st Squadron of Air Transportation 1st Squadron of Helicopters for General Use in the North of the Brazilian Navy
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: BEL, ICAO: SBBE, LID: PA0001
Elevation	17 metres (56 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 06/24 2,800 metres (9,186 ft) Asphalt 02/20 1,830 metres (6,004 ft) Asphalt
Sources: DECEA[1]

It shares some facilities with Val-de-Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport.

History

Belém Air Force Base has its origins on the 7th Aviation Regiment created on 30 June 1936. The provisory facility was located in the neighborhood ou Souza and it was only in 1938 that the construction of an aerodrome in the neighborhood of Val-de-Cans begun. The Air Force Base was created on 21 August 1944 by Decree 6,814.^[2]

Starting in 1958, with the creation of the Correio Aéreo Nacional da Amazônia in Belém, an Air Force organization focused in integration and humanitarian services, the Base gained vital importance as a base for the integration of the Amazonian region with the rest of the country.^[3]

Units

The following units are based at Belém Air Force Base:

• 1st Squadron of the 3rd Aviation Group (3°/7°GAv) Netuno, using the P-95BM Bandeirulha.^[4]
• 1st Squadron of Air Transportation (1°ETA) Tracajá, using the C-95BM & CM Bandeirante, C-97 Brasília, and the C-98A Grand Caravan.^[5]
• 1st Squadron of Helicopters for General Use in the North of the Brazilian Navy (HU41) Hipogrifo, using the UH-15 Super Cougar.^[6]

Access

The base is located 12 km from downtown Belém.

Gallery

This gallery displays aircraft that are or have been based at Belém. The gallery is not comprehensive.

Present aircraft

• 
  Embraer P-95B Bandeirulha (FAB)
• 
  Embraer C-95B Bandeirante (FAB)
• 
  Cessna C-98A Caravan (FAB)
• 
  Helibras UH-15 Super Cougar (Navy)

Retired aircraft

• 
  Consolidated CA-10 Catalina (FAB)
• 
  Douglas C-47 Dakota (FAB)

See also

• Aviation portal
• Brazil portal

• List of Brazilian military bases
• Val-de-Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport