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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 ...
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]
Location ICAO IATA Airport name Civil airports Ali-Sabieh: HDAS: AII: Ali-Sabieh Airport: Assa-Gueyla: HDAG Assa-Gueyla Airport: Chabelley: HDCH Chabelley Airport
HDCH – Chabelley Airport – Chabelley; HDDK ... UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes; Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes
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)
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)
The airfield was home to a number of heavy bomber squadrons of the RAF during the Second World War. Post war RAF Thor Missiles were stationed here 1958–1963. After the departure of the Thor missiles in 1963, the RAF's Officer Cadet Training Unit was based on the station, transferring from RAF Jurby, Isle of Man, in September 1963. [2]
On 28 February 1958 the official name of Orly Air Base was changed to Orly Airport and most MATS flights were routed to Chateauroux Air Depot. After 15 years of U.S. Air Force presence, French President Charles de Gaulle decided to evict non-French NATO forces from France. He refused to store U.S. nuclear weapons on French soil.