Japan Air Materiel Area

  1947 to 1949

  United States of America

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TYPE: USAAF unit

IATA/ICAO CODES: Nil

HEADQUARTERS: Tachikawa AB, Japan

FORMER NAME: Nil

SUBSEQUENT NAME: Far East Air Materiel Command (1949)

The Japan Air Materiel Area (JAMA) was a depot-level maintenance facility based at Tachikawa AB in Japan after the war. Its role was to service aircraft of the 7^th Air Force, which was occupying Japan after the war. In 1949, JAMA was integrated into FEAMCOM (Far East Air Materiel Command).

January 1948* to October 1950*

Several Commandos still in service with the USAF in the Pacific were stripped of parts and broken up at the Japan Air Materiel Area.

• Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando: 44-77323, 44-77342