Dole-Jura Airport
| Aéroport de Dole Jura | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LFGJ |
| IATA code | DLE |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 195 m (640 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 4 km southwest of Dole |
| Street |
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1939 |
| operator | IHK Jura |
| Passengers | 104,621 (2016) |
| Air freight | 0 (2016) |
| Flight movements |
860 (2016) |
| Runways | |
| 05/23 | 2600 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 05L / 23R | 800 m × 3 m grass |
The Aéroport de Dole Jura ( IATA code DLE , ICAO code LFGJ , formerly Dole-Tavaux ) is a French regional airport in the communes of Tavaux and Gevry in the Jura department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region . It's about ten kilometers southwest of Dole .
history
The airfield in Tavaux was built in 1938/1939 as a satellite base for the nearby military airfield in Dijon-Longvic . After the outbreak of the Second World War , the place became a stationing place for reconnaissance and bomber groups with Bloch MB.131 , Bloch MB.174 and Bloch MB.200 .
During the German occupation Dole-Tavaux was an air base of the Air Force . The main user in the second half of 1943 was the 6th squadron of Nachtjagdgeschwader 4 (6./NJG 4), which mainly used the Bf 110 and Do 217 . Towards the end of the occupation, the site became the target of Allied air raids in 1944 and after the area was liberated by the US Army, Airfield Y.7 became the base for fighter and light bomber groups of the Twelfth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces between September 1944 and June 1945 ( USAAF). In the winter of 1944/1945, a total of four different fighter groups of the Free French Air Force lay here, even for shorter periods.
After the end of the war, the base was still a military airfield until France left the military structures of NATO in 1967 , but no airborne units were stationed here.
Subsequently, the Aéroclub de Franche-Comté initially took over the operation and in 1970 the handling terminal for passenger traffic was opened, while the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry took over the operation of the state airport. Air Alpes was the first airline to fly to Dole-Tavaux. Various airlines also used the space for training and check flights for their crews.
Todays use
There will be no flights to the airport from German-speaking countries in November 2012. In scheduled and charter traffic, Ryanair operates to Porto in Portugal, Danube Wings operates domestic French to Nice ; it is also part of the airmail network within France. Binair intends to start a connection to Paris (Orly) in 2013 .
Incidents
- On December 29, 1973 was North 262A-24 of the Rousseau Aviation ( aircraft marks F-BNTT ) damaged at the airport Dole Tavaux irreparable.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Statistics on the website of the Ministère de l'écologie, du développement durable et de l'énergie. (PDF; 2.55 MB) (No longer available online.) In: developpement-durable.gouv.fr. Ministère de l'écologie, du développement durable et de l'énergie, archived from the original on April 29, 2017 ; accessed on May 12, 2017 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.americas-fr.com/tourisme/actualite/vol-dole-paris-avec-binair-17152.html
- ^ Accident report North 262 F-BNTT , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 17, 2018.
