Orange-Caritat Air Base
Air Base 115 Orange-Caritat is a French Air and Space Force base in Vaucluse, France. It is equipped with one runway and was named after Maurice de Seynes, a French-Soviet aircraft pilot. It is located east of Orange, a commune in the Vaucluse department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France.
It hosts:
- Escadron de Chasse 1/5 Vendée - Dassault Rafale
- Escadron de Chasse 2/5 Île-de-France - Dassault Mirage 2000B
- Escadron d'Hélicoptères 1/65 Alpilles - Eurocopter Fennec
- Centre d'Instruction des Equipages d'Hélicoptères 341 Colonel Alexis Santini - Fennec
- a permanent Dépôt atelier munitions spécialisées detachment; this is a headquarters unit responsible for all special ammunition storage in France.
- escadron de défense sol-air 10.950 the base air defense unit.
- etablissement logistique du commissariat de l’air de Portes-les –valence, a logistic unit.
- a guard detachment Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air responsible for ground defense and base security.