Tengah Airbase

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Tengah Airbase is the most important airfield of the Republic of Singapore Air Force. It is home to the RSAF's F-16 Fighting Falcons, E-2C Hawkeyes and a large number of UAVs. Tengah's reserve storage includes some 100 units of A4-SU Super SkyHawks that are capable of laser-guided bombings and air defence. These were retired in 2005, but kept in reserve storage.

Prior to Singapore's independence, it was an Royal Air Force station known as RAF Tengah.

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RAF Tengah was comissioned in 1939.During the Malayan Emergency, it housed Avro Lincolns of the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force which performed bombing missions on Chinese guerrillas. In 1954 the Royal Air Force was re-equipped with Venom FB4's and Vampire T11's of 60 Squadron and was joined by 14 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. In 1958 they were joined by 45 Squadron RAF, with B2 Canberras. The Royal Australian Air Force retained their Lincolns with No 1(B) Bomber squadron until the end of the emergency.

[edit] Tengah Air Base

It was renamed Tengah Air Base in 1971 when it was handed over to the Singapore Air Defence Command (SADC). And from 1971 to 1976, under the Five Power Defence Arrangement, Tengah housed British, Australian and New Zealand forces.

The Flying squadrons are:^[1]