Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base

Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base (ICAO: DTTB) is a Tunisian Air Force base located approximately 7 km west of Menzel Abderahman, and 9 km west-southwest of Bizerte.

Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base
Part of Tunisian Air Force
Site information
Type	Military airfield
Controlled by	Tunisian Air Force United States Air Force
Location
Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base Location of Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base, Tunisia
Coordinates	37°14′36.30″N 009°47′11.03″E
Site history
Built	1943

Units stationed at the base are:

• No. 11 Squadron

Jet trainer squadron, Aermacchi MB-326

• No. 15 Squadron

Fighter squadron, Northrop F-5 Tiger/TigerII

• No. 21 Squadron
• Transport squadron, C-130 Hercules, Let L-410 Turbolet, G-222

World War II

During World War II it was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force during the North African Campaign. It was known as Bizerte Airfield. Several Allied units used the base in 1943. It was a heavy bomber airfield used by B-17 Flying Fortress strategic bombers of the 2d Bombardment Group, between 2 and 9 December 1943. There was a major air depot co-located at Sidi Ahmed.

Post-World War II

AFRICOM secretly operates a drone base at Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed Air Base.^[1][2]

See also

• Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress airfields in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations