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Norway shutting down Bodø Air Base

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Norwegian F-16s will fly their last mission out of Bodø Air Base on Jan. 6 and the base will end all fighter operations after that.

ACE19 taxi out. Bodø, 24-5-2019 (49357392093)
Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons


Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) duties in the Artic area will be taken over by fighters stationed at Evenes Air Station.

Two F-16s will launch from Bodø on Jan. 6 but one will land back at the base to be retired as an exhibit in the local museum.

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