Operation Northern Falcon

Operation Northern Falcon
Location
Planned byUkrainian Air Force
Objectivetransportation of fuel
Date12 January 2009 (2009-01-12) – present

Operation Northern Falcon (Ukrainian: Операція «Північний сокіл») is a joint Ukrainian–Danish operation in Greenland for the transportation of fuel from the United States Air Force's Thule Air Base to the Danish Station Nord by the military transport aircraft Ilyushin Il-76MD of the Ukrainian Air Force. It has been conducted annually since 2009.[1]

  1. ^ ""Ukrainian-Danish fuel transportation operation "Northern Falcon 2019" has started". ukraine.um.dk. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. 15 March 2019. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2019.