Editing Drug Enforcement Administration (section)

===Aviation Division===
[[Image:DEA - Office of Aviation Operations emblem.png|thumb|DEA Aviation Division logo]]

The DEA '''Aviation Division''' or '''Office of Aviation Operations''' ('''OA''') (formerly '''Aviation Section''') is an airborne division based in [[Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport|Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport, Texas]]. The current OA fleet consists of 106 aircraft and 124 DEA pilots.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/aviation.htm |publisher=U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration |title=Inside the DEA > DEA Programs > Aviation |access-date=September 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920235245/http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/aviation.htm |archive-date=September 20, 2008 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The DEA shares a communications system with the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] for communication with state and regional enforcement independent of the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] and police information systems and is coordinated by an information command center called the [[El Paso Intelligence Center]] (EPIC) near [[El Paso, Texas]].