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FOCUS ON:
PANAMA CANAL TREATY
TRANSITION.... 1979-1999
Summary of Treaty
Transition Milestones
Military Property
Transfers to Panama: ALBROOK
Treaty Impact on Military
ALBROOK-History
ALBROOK-New Uses
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ALBROOK
AIR FORCE BASE/STATION
SUMMARY OF WHAT TRANSFERRED
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ALBROOK
ARMY AIRFIELD |
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ALBROOK
AIR FORCE STATION |
Constructed beginning in
1922 as Albrook Field, Albrook became an Air Force Base in 1948 until
1975 when it was downgraded to an Air Force Station and Air Force
aircraft and units moved to Howard Air Force Base. The airstrip
and adjacent hangars and buildings (Albrook Army Airfield) was
transferred to Panama on October 1, 1979, along with the adjacent the
PAD (Panama Air Depot) Area.
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ALBROOK
ARMY AIRFIELD*
Part of
the Panama Air Depot or PAD Area
(Transferred
to Panama October 1, 1979)
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Complex of hangars (buildings
1012, 1013, 1014, and 1015), plus headquarters building (1011)
of the then Army's 210th Aviation Battalion (located
adjacent to the PAD (old Panama Air Depot) Area. (Shortly before
the transfer, the 210th Aviation Battalion moved across the Canal to
Howard Air Force Base and Fort Kobbe.) |
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6,850-foot airstrip and associated
taxiways. |
* Original
part of Albrook (including the flight line, three of the four hangars,
four original enlisted barracks -- 800, 802-804 -- and other buildings)
were constructed 1930-32 and expanded in 1940s. The airfield, hangars, and
building 1011 (across the airfield from the main part of the base) were
transferred from the Air Force to the Army and renamed Albrook Army Airfield
in July 1974. Albrook Air Force Base was redesignated Albrook Air Force
Station in February 1975.
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| Albrook Army Airfield
(hangars and airfield) and adjacent PAD (Panama Air Depot) Area and
on left Curundu Heights housing area.
[U.S. Army Photo,
1978] |
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Albrook
Army Airfield hangars (foreground) and Ablrook Air Force Station
across the airfield (in background). Part of PAD Area in lower
and left foreground. [U.S. Army Photo,
1978] |
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ALBROOK
AIR FORCE STATION
(Transferred
to Panama September 30, 1997)
SUMMARY OF WHAT TRANSFERRED
-- 769 acres with:
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468 units of family housing
(consisting of 194 duplexes and 80 single units); |
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Several barracks building and
warehouses; |
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Four aircraft hangars (recent usage as
storage and some helicopter operations after the Inter-American Air
Forces Academy (IAAFA) relocated from Albrook AFS in 1989 initially to
Homestead Base in Florida, then to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas). |
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Officers club and officer guest
houses; community club with restaurant, bowling alley, shoppette, and
nearby swimming pool; chapel, post office, and several retail stores;
horse stables, other facilities, and |
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Former school (Building 861) -- Built
as a school but used as headquarters of the senior Air Force Commands in
Panama (then used as Department of Defense Dependents School System (DoDDS)
Headquarters 1979-1998; partially used by Headquarters of Special
Operations Command-South in the 1990s). |
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Adjusted book value:
$394,657,406. |
ALBROOK AIR
FORCE STATION (area in
brown as designated a Defense Site by the Panama Canal Treaty of
1977). Albrook Army Airfield (airfield and hangars on right
side of photo) and adjacent PAD (Panama Air Depot) Area shown in
center and right foreground since it had transferred to Panama on
October 1, 1979.
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ALBROOK AIR
FORCE STATION
1 Former
IAAFA buildings (805 through 812)
2
Hangars
(5) (Buildings 444-446 and 449 and 450)
3
Former
barracks (buildings 800 - 804), last used as Albrook Mall
4
shoppette,
stores, teen center,
cafeteria, bowling alley complex
5
Swimming
pool 6
Former
Noncommissioned Officers (NCO) Club (was building 866) 7
Building 865 (originally
Air Force dispensary; in 1990s used as Joint Exercises Training
Center) 8
Officers quarters on
Canfield Ave. 9
General Officer
Quarters 1 10
Officers Guest Quarters and
Air Force Bachelor Officers Quarters (Buildings 19 and 21) 11
Officers Club (Building 13) 12
Building 861 (built as a
school but used as Air Force command headquarters; last used by
Special Operations Command- South and DODDS schools Panama Region
offices) 13
300 Housing Area |
| ALBROOK
ARMY AIRFIELD
(right side of above map) |
1
Airstrip and taxiways
2 Hangars (buildings
1012, 1013, 1014, and 1015)
3 Building
1011 - last used as Army's 210th Aviation Battalion
Headquarters |
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Albrook Air Force
Station - Front part (before transfer
to Panama in 1997) -- The main part
of Albrook (front gate leading to Andrews Boulevard flanked by eight large
buildings (right center) -- built as barracks in 1942 and used later for
the Inter-American Air Forces Acadamy (IAAFA); hangars and flight line in
uuper right part of photo.
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