Airport details

Basa Air Base

Floridablanca, Philippines Asia

ICAO RPUF 1 runways
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Airport information

Dataset record
IATA
-
ICAO
RPUF
Elevation
151 ft / 46 m
Runways
1
Longest runway
8,433 ft / 2,570 m
Main surface
Asphalt
Timezone
Asia/Manila
Coordinates
14.98724, 120.492554

Location

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Weather snapshot

Asia/Manila · Updated Sat 7 Nov, 10:00

Open-Meteo

Light drizzle now, with temperatures around 23°C to 31°C (73°F to 87°F) today and up to 39% rain risk.

Current
Light drizzle
Temperature
28°C
83°F
Humidity
70%
Wind
15 km/h 9 mph
Local time
10:10
Sunrise
05:55
Sunset
17:27

Today

Light drizzle

23°C to 31°C 73°F to 87°F

Rain 39%
Wind 19 km/h 11 mph

Sun

Light drizzle

23°C to 30°C 74°F to 87°F

Rain 76%
Wind 19 km/h 12 mph

Mon

Drizzle

23°C to 31°C 74°F to 88°F

Rain 84%
Wind 18 km/h 11 mph

Airline service

Routes dataset

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About

From Wikipedia

Basa Air Base

Cesar Basa Air Base, or simplyBasa Air Base(formerly known asFloridablanca Airfield) (ICAO:RPUF), is an airbase currently operated by the Philippine Air Force. It is located at Floridablanca, Pampanga about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Metro Manila in the Philippines. It is named after César Basa, one of the pioneer fighter pilots of the Philippine Air Force.

The base was built and used by the US Army Air Corps before the Second World War and was captured and used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force during the early stages of World War II. Allied military forces recaptured it during the later stages of the war.

Company B, 803rd Engineer (Aviation) Battalion, began work on what was originally known as Del Carmen Field in mid-November 1941. It was to be major airdrome with multiple runways designed to serve heavy bombers that were to be assigned to the Philippines prior to the start of World War II. The engineers were not able to complete the field, and only the 34th Pursuit Squadron,...

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Basa Air Base

Country

Philippines

Official name
Philippines

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