Amiens-Glisy airfield

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Aérodrome de Amiens-Glisy
Glisy aérodrome (alignement pour atterrissage) 2.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LFAY
IATA code QAM
Coordinates

49 ° 52 '22 "  N , 2 ° 23' 15"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '22 "  N , 2 ° 23' 15"  E
Height above MSL 63 m (207  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6 km east of Amiens
Street D 1029
2 km to the N 25
Basic data
opening 1937
operator Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole
Start-and runway
12/30 1230 m × 25 m asphalt

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The Aérodrome de Amiens-Glisy ( IATA QAM , ICAO LFAY ) is an airport of general aviation , it is in the region of Hauts-de-France in the department of Somme in the field of Glisy about six kilometers east of Amiens in France. The airfield was used as a military airfield during the Second World War .

Today it is used for general aviation ; in addition to the paved runway, it also has a grass runway.

history

The airfield was built in 1937 as a military airfield for the Armée de l'air . During the Second World War , the airfield was used by the Luftwaffe during the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht .

The first German user between July and September 1940 was the Bf 110 of the I. Group of Destroyer Squadron 2 (I./ZG 2), which was replaced by the 4th Squadron of Reconnaissance Group 11 (4th (F) / 11) until December 1940 .

In addition, from August 1940 Amiens served as a bomber base for He 111H during the Battle of Britain . Initially, the II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 26 (II./KG 26) lay here until the beginning of January 1941 . In addition, the airfield was the location of the staff of Kampfgeschwader 1 (S./KG 1) between September 1940 and June 1941 and from January to the end of March 1941 the 1st group of the same squadron was located here.

The airfield has been the target of Allied air raids on several occasions since the spring of 1944. It was liberated by the British Army in August 1944. In the further course of the war, Airfield B.48 , the Allied code name for Amiens-Glisy, continued to be used by the Allied Air Forces, initially by the British Royal Air Force , including at the beginning of September 1944 by the Typhoons of their 137th Squadron . It later served the United States Army Air Forces between early March and mid-June 1945 as the headquarters of the 52d Troop Carrier Wing of the Twelfth Air Force . Other users in April / May 1945 were the 315th Troop Carrier Group belonging to the 52nd Squadron and the 1st Troop Carrier Pathfinder Squadron (Provisional) of the Ninth Air Force . After the end of the war, the 438th Troop Carrier Group was stationed here until the beginning of August 1945 .

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