Air Force/ BA11: Portugal's growing fleet of P-3 Orion aircraft.
In 9 February 2024, the first of six P-3C Orions from the Capability Maintenance Program (CUP) of the German Navy landed on Portuguese soil. The delivery of the six P-3Cs is part of a 45 million euros between Portugal and Germany, signed in September 2023, which will increase the fleet from five to eleven.
Air Force: Second Embraer KC-390 plane has already made its first flight.
The second Brazilian aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force (FAP) will be delivered soon and has already completed its first flight.
BEJA WATER SHOW: One dead and one injured in collision between two aircraft.
Two planes from a patrol of six collided in the air and crashed, this Sunday, during the Beja Air Show. One of the pilots died.
Beja Air Show: More than a hundred firefighters attend the air festival.
The Beja Air Show 2024 (BAS24), military air show organized by the Portuguese Air Force (FAP), will be held on the air base grounds, for the first time, civilian rescue teams, in a partnership between the military institution and the Sub-Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command of Baixo Alentejo (CSREPCBA).
Beja Air Show: F-35 fighter will be exposed to the public for the first time.
For the first time, Portugal will have a 5th generation fighter on display, o Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, who will be at the Beja Air Show.