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Air Surveillance Squadron EVA 2

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The 2nd Air Surveillance Squadron, the first of the Air Force's Alert and Control Squadrons to enter service, was set up in Villatobas in 1958, sharing facilities and radar with the American 681st Air Defense Control Squadron. Its creation responded to the 1953 Madrid Pacts, which included the deployment of a surveillance network for Spanish airspace as part of the modernization of the Armed Forces. Six other similar centers entered service between 1957 and 1960, completing numbers 1 through 7, until in 1964 the United States handed the facilities over to the Spanish Government and disbanded its squadrons. The installation was the site, on 8 July 1958, of the first aerial interception carried out in Spain.

Photo: Michal Gorski (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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