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The airport has a single asphalt runway 10/28 that is 8,530 x 95 feet (2,600 x 29 m) long. It features displaced thresholds and runway turnarounds at either end in place of a parallel taxiway. Two small concrete aprons have been constructed to provide parking and maintenance facilities, some of the several additions made by the US military ...
Location ICAO IATA Airport name Civil airports Ali-Sabieh: HDAS: AII: Ali-Sabieh Airport: Assa-Gueyla: HDAG Assa-Gueyla Airport: Chabelley: HDCH Chabelley Airport
Some 1.5 miles north of Chabelley is Chabelley Airport, a desert airstrip until recently exclusively reserved in case of need for French military devices. [1] In September 2013, the airstrip began serving as a temporary hub for U.S. military unmanned aircraft from the nearby Camp Lemonnier Naval Expeditionary Base. [2]
The Dhekelia Airfield is a British military airfield located in the Eastern Sovereign Base Area (ESBA) of Dhekelia, on the island of Cyprus. It is part of the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory established in 1960. [1] [2]
Location of RAF Akrotiri within the Western Sovereign Base Area. In late 1956, relations between the United Kingdom and Egypt had reached a crisis. The Suez Crisis saw a further increase in the strength of RAF forces in Cyprus. Akrotiri was mainly an airfield for fighter, photo reconnaissance, and ground attack aircraft.
12th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron (12 ESOS) (Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti) 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (75 EAS) 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron (82 ERQS) 475th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron (475 EABS) (Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya) 726th Expeditionary Mission Support Squadron (726 EMSS)
Grottaglie Airfield, Italy, c. 4 January 1944 – 16 May 1945; Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, 29 May 1945; Dalhart Army Airfield, Texas, 24 July 1945; Grand Island Army Air Field, Nebraska, 8 September 1945 – 4 August 1946. Kincheloe AFB, Michigan, 1 February 1963 – 30 September 1977; Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti (2003–present)
No. 23 Squadron of RAF Flying Training Command (FTC) was desperately seeking a suitable airfield to re-house its No. 1 Glider Training School (No. 1 GTS). [2] Its then home was a small airfield at RAF Thame in Buckinghamshire and FTC felt it inadequate for glider training. Several airfields in the near vicinity made the short list, but RAF ...