Avord Air Base
Avord Air Base or BA 702, named after Captain Georges Madon, is a base of the French Air and Space Force located north northwest of Avord in central France.
Airbase 702 hosts about 2,500 personnel. Because of its strategic location in the middle of France it is extremely suitable as a multi purpose base. It has a single runway 06/24,.
Units on the base
- Escadron de détection et de contrôle aéroportés 36 Berry which flies the Boeing E-3F
- * Its role is to carry out airborne surveillance, and command, control and communications functions for both tactical and air defense forces. The French designation is E-3 SDA. Additional units attached: mission support flight, training flight, technical flight support and logistic flight.
- École de L'Aviation de Transport 319 Capitaine Jean Dartiques flying the Embraer EMB 121 Xingu
- Escadron D'Instruction en Vol Fourchambault
- A Special Ammunitions Storage or dépôt atelier munitions spécialisées. Storage of appx. 60 of FAF's stockpile of Air-Sol Moyenne Portée ASMP nuclear midrange air ground missiles.
- Two hardened alert facilities. One is hosting for Dassault Mirage 2000N combat aircraft, normally home based at Istres Air Base or at Luxeuil - Saint-Sauveur Air Base. These planes are detached here on a rotating cycles to comply to the French nuclear deterrence mission. The other facility hosts E-3F airplanes and KC-135 tankers, normally home based at Istres, but detached to Avord AB to be used with some AWACS and strike missions.
- technical maintenance depot.
- entrepôt de munition de l'armée de l'air Savigny-en-Septaine, a conventional ammo storage unit.
- 1H.702 firefighting/rescue and nuclear decontamination unit.
- 12.802 strategic telecom unit.
- 02.950 air defense sqn Sancerre equipped with the Crotale and MBDA Mistral short range air defense systems.
- 1G.702 security squadron Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air responsible for security and base protection.