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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
In January 2007, it was announced Camp Lemonnier would be expanded from 97 acres (0.39 km 2) to nearly 500 acres (2.0 km 2). [13] As part of the process of moving Lemonnier from an "expeditionary" base to a long term facility, the camp built a billeting area with rows of Containerized Living Units (CLUs) with concrete sidewalks and gravel roads ...
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]
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)
Also see airport category and list. South Sudan obtained a dedicated ICAO airport code prefix, HJ, in 2021. However, many airports continue to use the HS prefix that is used by Sudan. HJJJ (JUB) – Juba International Airport – Juba; HJMK (MAK) – Malakal Airport – Malakal; HJRB (RBX) – Rumbek Airport – Rumbek
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.