It started to be built by the Portuguese Navy as an navel air station, before World War II, to replace its old Bom Sucesso Naval Aviation base of in Lisbon.
WW2[]
WW2 prevented slowed the progress of the construction work. It only ended only before the base's inauguration in 1952, as the Sacadura Cabral Naval Aviation Centre.
Cold War[]
The navel air unit merged in to the air force in by late 1956\early 1957.
Post Cold War[]
The Air Force Survival Training Center (Portuguese: Centro de Treino de Sobrevivência da Força Aérea, or the 'CTSFA') is based at BA6, along with a air force bomb disposal squad. The air base became home to a naval helicopter squadron and their hellipad or hellipads opened in 1993 for the use by 3 military helicopters.
Civil history[]
Civil flights have sometimes been diverted to and on occasion charters to it since the end of the Cold War. ANA’s holding company, the French owned Vinci Group, proposed that it could become an airport for civil flights as Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado airport is approaching its capacity of 23 million passengers per year, which (according to current trends) will be reached in the summer of 2018. TAP, Ryanair and Easy Jet were, as of January 2017, planning to increase the number of routes in and out of Lisbon. The Portuguese armed forces still use it.
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Category.
Statistic.
Location.
Portugal.
Opened in.
Finished and inaugurated in 1952 as the Sacadura Cabral Naval Aviation Centre. Opened in 1953 as Air Base No. 6.
Closed in.
Sill open, with part facing conversion to a military airport as of 2017.