15th air engineer regiment

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The Air Engineer was a regiment of the Army of the Engineer's Weapons, made available to the Air Force Command. The Air Engineer personnel were, for the called, part of the annual Air contingent, for active personnel, virtually all of them from the Genie-Terre, but "loaned" for reimbursement. The men therefore had the peculiarity of wearing mixed air/genius shoulder sheaths (black velvets, engineering harnesses and Army-type scavengers) meaning that the regiment was under the administration of the Army and the Air Force for employment.

The regiment was based in Écrouves near Toul, Avenue du Génie, Écrouves is divided into 4 districts and the Thouvenot barracks were located in the Bautzen district. She was airbase 551.

A SO-4050 Vulture, framed by two bulldozers, stood on the place of arms until , the date of its dissolution.

The RGA was the custodian of the traditions of the 60 track units. He was wearing the number of the old 60-way regiment.

Creation and various denominations
1951: From elements of the Libourne Engineer Battalion, the Air Engineer Battalion was created in Toul Thouvenot district and Marceau barracks in Écrouves. The BGA becomes the Air Engineer Regiment on
1952 : The RGA company gives birth to the Air Engineers created in 1952 in Compiègne
1955: , formation of a work detachment to North Africa, this advance detachment became the , the Air Engineering Land Company, and then the Alleged Air Engineer Battalion. 1956. The R.G.A. leads numerous detachments for five to six years on the BAGA, stationed in Reghaia and then in Ain-el-Turck. The last detachment, dated the 19th century, was directed to Toulouse, a city to which the B.A.G.A. had moved in the meantime.
1963: October, formation of the Air Engineer March Company, the company, forming corps, is made available to Joint Command for employment at the Pacific Experimentation Centre (CEP), as part of the French nuclear tests in French Polynesia. Six officers of the regiment are assigned to this company:
Captain Lagadec, Lieutenant Roignant, Lieutenant Merlette, Lieutenant Bobin, Lieutenant Gallon, Lieutenant Schwald; The first start was made on , Lieutenant Schwald attended the first boarding which took place in Le Havre on .
, the air engineer is permanently implanted on airbase 125 Istres-Le Tubé.
, the Minister of State in charge of National Defence decides to set up from : Company 4/18 of Air Engineer in autonomous detachment of type 4 C.
, the Minister of State for National Defence decides, in order to translate his intention to adapt more closely the Air Engineer trainings, to the territorial organization of the Air Force and to facilitate the mobilization of these units