Base aérienne 115 d'Orange-Caritat

 military airbase, military

Airbase 115 Homebase for Escadron de Chasse (Strike Wing) 2/5 "Ille de France" operating Mirage 2000B (30x) and C (30x) RDI aircraft. Primary mission: QRA. General airdefence; air policing (interception); inflight protection of strategic and conventional strike forces. Secondary mission: operational conversion unit for Mirage 2000 interceptor and airdefence crewmembers;

Small airbase with 1 runway located 5 km E of Orange. Former nuclear bomber base (1965-1984) sqn 2/93 - later 3/91 'Cevennes' operating Mirage IV-A/P and with a former on-base Dépôt Atelier de Munitions Spéciales (DAMS) - a special weapons storage.

On-base units:
- AD sqn 2/5 - Dépôt atelier munitions spécialisées (DAMS) is non-ops and deactivated.
- AD missile sqn 10/950,
- Mesure Active Sureté Aérienne (MASA) helicopter unit using AS 350 Ecureuils surveilling and securing the base and certain sensitive installations.
- Force protection detachment fusiliers commandos de l’air (ground defense and base security unit).

Off-base units:
Station hertzienne (Communications relay station) 18.804 on top of the Mont-Ventoux.
Etablissement Logistique du Commissariat de l'Air (E.L.C.A.) 00.784 - a logistic unit - in Portes-Les-Valence, departement Drôme