Lieutenant Colonel Basilio Fernando Air Base (Lipa)

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Air Base.
ICAO: RPUL

Named after Lt. Colonel Basilio Fernando. A Philippine airman who was killed in
the United States on 21 January 1946 during a training flight on a B-25 Mitchell medium Bomber in Oklahoma, USA.

Known in the past as Lipa City Army Air Base. The Base was built by the Japanese Armed Forces in 1942 after their victory using Philippine and American prisoners on forced labor. Afterwards it became the home of the Philippine Air Force Training Base, the "Air Force Academy Campus" until the unit was transferred to Southern Philippines.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Air_Base
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Coordinates:   13°57'7"N   121°7'30"E
This article was last modified 7 years ago