✈️Air Base
Base Aérea de Manta (FAE — Former US FOL)
🇪🇨Manta, Manabí·Ecuador
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Quick Facts
TypeAir Base
Country🇪🇨 Ecuador
CityManta, Manabí
Coordinates-0.9460, -80.6880
About This Installation
Former US Forward Operating Location Manta, used for counter-narcotics flights 1999–2009 under a 10-year renewable agreement. Ecuador declined to renew the lease in 2009, citing constitutional provisions against foreign military bases. Now operates as FAE Base Aérea de Manta, hosting maritime patrol aircraft watching over Ecuador's Exclusive Economic Zone and the Galápagos.
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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