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On Monday, 17 November, the Air Force Academy hosted the 9th Aerospace Medicine Conference, organised by the Health Directorate, the Aeronautical Medicine Centre and the Portuguese Aerospace Medicine Society. The opening session was chaired(...)
On Monday, 17 November, the Air Force Academy (AFA) welcomed the Commander of Belgium's Royal Military Academy (RMA), Major-General An-Roos De Potter, and her delegation.The visit began with an institutional briefing on the mission, organisation(...)
On 14 November, the Air Force attended Téc4Defence 2025 with a delegation of three military personnel from the Air Force Academy Research Centre (CIAFA) and the Innovation and Organisational Transformation Division.This participation(...)
From 30 September to 14 November, the 21st edition of National Defence Day took place at Air Base No. 1 in Sintra, with the participation of thousands of young people from various municipalities in the district of Lisbon. In this context,(...)
This afternoon, 15 November, the Air Force was called upon once again to rescue four more people from the sailing boat ‘YANNY’, following yesterday's rescue of one person.It should be noted that the crew of the sailing boat(...)
Today, 14 November, the Air Force was involved in the rescue of a person who was on board a sailing boat more than 110 km from the island of Porto Santo, in the Madeira Archipelago.During the morning, the Air Force's Search and Rescue(...)
Last wednesday, 12 November, the Air Force Academy (AFA) held its solemn opening ceremony for the 2025/2026 academic year in Sintra, before an audience of three hundred people.
Presided over by the Minister of National Defence, Nuno Melo, the(...)
Last Tuesday, November 11th, the Portuguese Air Force carried out the rescue of a 57-year-old woman who was in urgent need of medical assistance on board the vessel MEIN SCHIFF 3.
After the Lisbon Search and Rescue Coordination Center(...)