Dr. Dániel Luka
Start of Exercise Jolly Vihar 2025
13:12 July 14, 2025
Once again, the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters of the USAFE 56th Rescue Squadron and 57th Rescue Squadron landed on the tarmac of Pápa Air Base, Hungary.
ENDEX
14:05 June 2, 2025
The helicopter tactical Exercise Fire Blade 2025 has ended in Pápa. During twelve days, more than 300 servicemembers of the five participating nations and the four supporting nations completed 218 flight hours with close to 500 take-offs and landings.
Fire Blade 2025: Composite Air Operations
10:27 May 30, 2025
In the second week of Exercise Fire Blade 2025, the training flights are continuously going on, during which the aircrews of five nations are carrying out Composite Air Operations (COMAOs) in the airspace of the Bakony Hills and its environs.
Fire Blade in Top Gear
10:20 May 28, 2025
The multinational helicopter tactical Exercise Fire Blade 2025 is going on in top gear at the HDF 47th Air Base in Pápa, Hungary.
Fire Blade 2025 – Cooperation has outstanding importance
12:20 May 21, 2025
The international tactical helicopter exercise Fire Blade 2025 has started in Pápa. Already for the third time, the HDF 47th Air Base is hosting this large-scale training event, which is taking place with the participation of rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft of five nations as well as supporting equipment of three nations.
Maintenance for the first time in Hungary
11:02 February 18, 2025
Aircraft technicians of the Kecskemét-based HDF 101st Aviation Wing recently carried out annual maintenance work on the KC-390 Millennium transport aircraft of the Hungarian Defence Forces inside the unique C-17 hangar of the multinational Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) Program at the HDF 47th Air Base, Pápa, Hungary.
Open Skies
11:09 March 18, 2024
The Centre for Security Cooperation (RACVIAC) based in Zagreb, Croatia, held an Open Skies Treaty Aerial Observation Course at the HDF 47th Airbase in Tata at the beginning of March. The main goal of the international organization – in the field of arms control – is to implement mutual security-building measures and closer cooperation. After the academic training and planning, the course participants flew two observation flights in the airspace of Hungary with the AN-30 aircraft arriving from Romania.
Pápa Air Base expands further
11:41 January 17, 2024
On 11 January, the foundation stone of the new C-17 Aircrew Training System (Simulator) building of the Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) was laid at the Hungarian Defense Forces’ 47th Air Base in Pápa (western Hungary). This part of the building will house the offices and workshops for the operators of the C-17 simulator, as well as classrooms and briefing rooms for aircrew training.