Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON Con Thien (Vietnamese: Cồn Tiên

Con Thien (Vietnamese: Cồn Tiên

F-15C/D Eagles

U-Tapao welcomed its first complement of KC-135 tankers in August 1966

Misty FACs

Before 1975

Takhli Thailand Proudly Served - OD Green COTTON Con Thien (Vietnamese: Cồn TiênTakhli RTAFB was established in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used Takhli as operating base for CIA resupply of Tibetan freedom fighters. CIA operated C 130A Hercules transports flew men and supplies over Indian airspace, with the consent of Prime Minister Nehru, for parachute drops into Communist Chinese occupied Tibet.[2] Political considerations with regards to Communist forces engaging in a civil