Torrejon Air Base (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Torrejon Air Base (IATA: TOJ, ICAO: LETO) is a military airport in Spain near of Madrid. It was used by the United States Air Force until 1996. Now it is used as a military airport used the spanish air forces and as the commercial Madrid-Torrejon Airport. During the Cold War the facility was headquarters of the United States Air Forces in Europe Sixteenth Air Force as well as the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing. Aircraft based at Torrejon were rotated to other USAFE airbases at Aviano AB, Italy, and at Incirlik AB, Turkey. Torrejon was, in addition, a staging, reinforcement, and logistical airlift base. The USAF withdrew its forces on 21 May 1992.