Dijon-Bourgogne Airport
| Aéroport de Dijon-Bourgogne | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LFSD |
| IATA code | DIJ |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 221 m (725 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 8 km southeast of Dijon |
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1914 |
| operator | Edeis |
| Passengers | 3,028 (2019) |
| Flight movements |
344 (2019) |
| Runways | |
| 18/36 | 2400 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 02/20 | 1800 m × 36 m asphalt |
| website | |
| www.dijon.aeroport.fr/ | |
The Aéroport de Dijon Bourgogne is a French airport in the Burgundy region in the Côte-d'Or department about three kilometers east-southeast of Longvic . Scheduled traffic is limited to a few destinations in the west of France that are served by Eastern Airways .
The airport was a military airfield of the French Air Force (Armée de l'air) until 2016 . The military used the base aérienne 102 Dijon-Longvic (BA 102) between 1949 and 2011, especially as a base for hunting squadrons, French. Escadron de chasse (EC).
history
The first aviation use dates back to 1910, when flight days were organized at the end of September of that year. In 1913 the military drafted the plan for the military use of the hitherto civil aerodrome and in April 1914 a first season of Farman HF19 arrived. In the course of the following World War , the airfield was continuously expanded and became an important training center for flying and non-flying personnel. Georges Guynemer , then a second lieutenant, was handed over the first troop flag of the young air forces in Dijon in 1916. The base bears his name today.
In 1924, fighter planes came to Dijon for the first time and in the following year Dijon squadrons intervened in the Rif War . In the following years the aircraft fleet was regularly modernized, the last access before the outbreak of the Second World War was the Morane-Saulnier MS.406 .
At the end of 1939, Dijon became the home base of the Amiot 143 bomber group II / 34, which began converting to the Amiot 354 in April 1940 . The airfield was in May 1940 several times by the German Luftwaffe bombed which took him to France's defeat in the Western campaign as a military airfield used.
In the spring of 1941 the IV. Group of Kampfgeschwader 55 Greif (IV./KG 55), equipped with He 111 , was stationed , an aircraft pilot's school whose task it was to train bomber crews to advanced levels. She remained stationed in Dijon-Longvic until May 1944. From the end of October 1942, some Me 321 cargo gliders arrived in Dijon, followed by their He 111Z (twin) tow planes . These formed the first group of Luftlandegeschwader 2 (I./LlG 2), which also had the Me 323 , DFS 230 and Go 242 at times . Between March 1943 and summer 1944 there were also night fighters of the types Bf 110 and Do 217 ; The main user was the 5th squadron of Nachtjagdgeschwader 4 (5./NJG 4).
The airfield was bombed several times by the Eighth Air Force in 1944 and was repeatedly targeted by American fighter-bomber attacks after the successful landing . After the area was liberated by the Allies, the free French air forces used the heavily damaged area. The first users were the 1/3 "Corse" and 1/7 "Provence" with Spitfire , which belonged to the British RAF as 327th and 328th Squadron . Various US fighter squadrons and light bomber groups were also on Airfield Y.9 between September 1944 and June 1945 , the Allied code name.
After the end of the war, the base was repaired and initially still used by propeller guns before the jet fighter era began with the arrival of vampires from hunting group 1/2 "Cigognes" (storks) in 1949, followed by 3/2 "Alsace" . The field, which now had a 1,800 m long main runway, became the home of the Ouragan in 1953 and, from 1956, the supersonic Mystère IVA . The Patrouille de France , which was re-established in 1957, flew this pattern in Dijon .
In 1961 the first Mirage arrived in the form of the Mirage IIIC , which from 1966 was also used to train French and foreign pilots. The EC 2/2 "Côte-d'Or" was set up for this purpose. The Mirage III flew in later versions into the 1980s in Dijon and in 1984 the first Mirage 2000 multi- role fighter aircraft for the three local fighter groups arrived in Burgundy. The EC 3/2 moved in 1993 to the base 132 Colmar-Meyenheim and the EC 1/2 in 2011 to the base 116 Luxeuil-St Sauveur .
The Mirage school group EC 2/2 was dissolved in 2007 and replaced by a new Alpha-Jet-E school group EE 5/2. This was renamed EE 2/2 in 2009 and relocated to Base 120 in Cazaux from August 2014 , which ceased military flight operations. Base 102 was closed at the end of June 2016.
Military use
On part of the airport grounds there is still a small military unit subordinate to Base aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun , the "Office of the Archives and the Reserve".
Civil use
The airport is the home base of the private aerobatic team Patrouille Breitling , which flies the Aero L-39 . Eastern Airways has also been flying scheduled services to Bordeaux , Nantes and Toulouse since August 2010 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edeis reprend l'ensemble des actifs français de SNC-Lavalin , accessed on February 27, 2017.
- ↑ a b Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 27, 2020 (French).
- ↑ La base aérienne de Dijon ferme ses portes, website of the Armée de l'Air, 5th July 2016