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Boufarik Airport
Boufarik Airport (ICAO: DAAK) is a military airport near Boufarik, Algeria. It is the home base for the Air Transport fleet of the Algerian Air Force.

The based aircraft are Beechcraft 1900, EADS CASA C-295, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Ilyushin Il-76. It has the 2e Escadre de Transport Tactique et Logistique and the 7e Escadre de Transport Tactique et de Ravitaillement en vol homebased.

History

On 3 May 1943, Charles de Gaulle landed at Boufarik airport, flying in from Gibraltar. He would remain based in Algeria until mid-1944 and the Liberation of France.

On 11 April 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 operated by the Algerian Air Force crashed just after takeoff from this airport, killing about 257 passengers on board.

Notes

  1. ^ "Airport information for Boufarik". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006.
  2. ^ "DAAK @ aerobaticsweb.org". Landings.com. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  3. ^ Google Maps - Boufarik
  4. ^ scramble.nl
  5. ^ Jacques Barchilon (4 November 2018). "An (Almost) Unknown Moment in the Life Of General De Gaulle". Open Heart, Open Hands.


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