✈️Air Base
Base Aérea de Santa Cruz (BASC)
🇧🇷Rio de Janeiro (West Zone)·Brazil
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Quick Facts
TypeAir Base
Country🇧🇷 Brazil
CityRio de Janeiro (West Zone)
Coordinates-22.9336, -43.7197
About This Installation
Major FAB installation in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, home to the 1st Transport Wing. Hosts C-130 Hercules and KC-390 Millennium tanker/transport operations. The KC-390 — designed and produced by Embraer in Brazil — is operated from Santa Cruz as Brazil's primary strategic airlift platform.
Information sourced from public defense ministry records, NATO official sources, and official national military websites. All installations are publicly acknowledged. Coordinates are approximate.
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