- published: 19 Jan 2013
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A naval air station is a military airbase, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the military aviation division of the relevant branch of a navy. Such bases are used to house naval aviation squadrons and their support commands.
The term "Naval Air Station" is used by many countries' navies, such as the United States Navy, Royal Australian Navy, UK's Royal Navy. The French Navy use Base d'aéronautique navale or BAN (Naval aéronautics base) or commonly called aeronavale base.
The Argentine Naval Aviation operates four Base Aeronaval (BAN): from BAN Punta Indio (BAPI) in Buenos Aires Province through BAN Comandante Espora (BACE) and BAN Almirante Zar (BAAZ) in Patagonia to BAN Almirante Quijada (BARD) at Tierra del Fuego. Runways also serve domestic airlines for almost all Argentine military airbases. The Navy operates Estacion Aeronaval (EAN) (stations) which have smaller crew and normally not assigned aircraft. These includes Ezeiza, Rio Gallegos and Ushuaia.
The Argentine Naval Prefecture, serving as a Coast Guard, also operates air stations at Posadas, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Comodoro Rivadavia with their aircraft been highly involved in sea rescues
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