Chièvres Air Base

Chièvres, Belgium

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194 ft

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NATO's key military airfield in central Belgium.

Opened

1937

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Chièvres, Belgium

Chièvres Air Base (ICAO: EBCV) is a military airfield located near the town of Chièvres in Hainaut Province, Belgium. It serves primarily as a support installation for NATO and U.S. Army Europe, functioning as the home airfield for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) at nearby Mons. The base is operated under a joint Belgian-American arrangement and handles military transport, liaison, and VIP flights rather than commercial passenger services. It is not open to civilian or commercial aviation and has no IATA code assigned. Chièvres plays a logistical role supporting NATO command structures in the region, with its proximity to SHAPE headquarters making it strategically significant for alliance operations in Europe.

Notable facts

›Chièvres Air Base serves as the primary airfield supporting NATO's SHAPE headquarters located nearby in Mons.
›The base is operated jointly by the Belgian Air Component and the United States Army.
›It handles only military and government flights; no commercial services are offered.
›The airfield has been in continuous use since before World War II.
›It has no assigned IATA code due to its exclusively military role.

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Chièvres Air Base, also referred to as SHAPE Airfield at Chievres Air Base, is a NATO airfield operated by the United States Air Force. It is located 2 km east-southeast of the Walloon town of Chièvres in the province of Hainaut, Belgium and about 19 km from Headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), in Casteau. It is mainly used to provide logistic support to NATO and SHAPE. Infrastructure support is provided by the United States Army Garrison Benelux for NATO.

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