Évreux-Fauville military airfield
| Base aérienne 105 Évreux-Fauville | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LFOE |
| IATA code | EVX |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 141 m (463 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 6 km east of Evreux |
| Street |
D 955 10 km to the N 13 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | June 9, 1913 |
| operator | Armée de l'air |
| Employees | 1700 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 04/22 | 2990 m × 45 m asphalt / concrete |
The Base aérienne 105 Evreux Fauville (BA 105) is a military airport of the French Air Force ( Armée de l'air ) . The base is located in the region of Normandy in the department of Eure in the area of three municipalities Fauviel, Gauciel and Huest about five kilometers east of Evreux . Together with Bricy, it is one of two home bases for the Armée de l'air's medium-weight transport aircraft .
In addition, since March 2017, a Dassault Rafale alarm riot has been used as a test .
history
Aviation began in the Évreux area in 1912 as a stopover for flights between Paris and the coast, and on June 9, 1913, it was inaugurated as the first military airfield in France.
A new airfield was built after the outbreak of World War II from September 1939, which became home to a flight school in mid-May 1940. After the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht which used Air Force the place as air base and put in the course of the war two concrete runways on.
The first unit that lay here were in the second half of June 1940 the staff equipped with Bf 109E , II. And III. Jagdgeschwader 2 group (S., II. And III./JG 2). The staff and the I. Group of Kampfgeschwader 54 (staff and I./KG 54) were in Évreux from late July 1940 to early June 1941 and took part in the Battle of Britain during this time .
Between June 1941 and January 1942 the place was home to the staff and 3rd squadron of Kampfgeschwader 30 (S. and 3./KG30), which was equipped with Ju 88A . Group I of JG 2 (I./JG 2) returned to Normandy for some time from June 1943, this time equipped with Bf 109G and Fw 190A .
In the years 1943/1944 the base was repeatedly the target of Allied air raids and in the winter of 1943/1944 the Me 410 of the staff and the 3rd squadron of Kampfgeschwader 51 flew (from the end of February 1944 also the 1st squadron) (p., 1. and 3./KF 51) their missions from here.
After the start of the Allied landing in Normandy , the airfield between early June and early July was the last time home of Horst interceptors of the type Bf 109 G. Here was initially until the end of June the II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 3 (II./JG 3) and already in mid-June also the II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 5 (II./JG 3). The British Royal Air Force then used Airfield B.28 , its allied code name, in the last months of the war.
After the end of the war, the facility was initially used as a civil airport for a few years. After the beginning of the Cold War , however, Évreux-Fauville became a military airfield again and was to become a base for the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), as part of the integrated NATO command structure. The expansion began in the summer of 1952 and in May 1955 the 465th Troop Carrier Wing, equipped with a C-119 , arrived at the Évreux Air Base (briefly: Évreux AB). The squadron was decommissioned in March 1958. However, between 1955 and 1964, the main user of Évreux AB was the 322d Airlift Division , which was in command of the US transport squadrons stationed in Europe. During this time, C-130 other bases rotated routinely through Évreux.
After France left the alliance, the USAFE withdrew and the Armée de l'air took over the airfield and used it from then on as a transport aircraft base. The first user was the mixed group or squadron 0/56 "Vaucluse" that came from base 218 and base 105 was home to transport aircraft of the Nord 2501 Noratlas type in 1967 , initially the ET 1/64 "Béarn" transport squadron, followed in 1968 by the ET 2/64 "Maine" and 1972 the 3/64 "Bigorre". 2/64 was dissolved in 1977 and reorganized as ET 2/64 "Anjou" the following year.
The 3rd season was dissolved in 1981 and the other two upgraded to the Transall NG in 1981 (ET 1/64) and 1983 (ET 2/64) . The last "Nora" left the base in July 1984. The base was named in the same year after the squadron commander "Voul", who died in Tonkin in 1947 .
Between 1987 and 2001, the base was also home to special units of the Force de frappe , initially as the 1/59 "Astarté" division, from 1992 reclassified into the 0/59 group with the 1/59 "Bigorre" transport division.
Due to the reintroduction of squadrons into the French Air Force, the 64th Air Transport Squadron ( 64e escadre de transport ) was reactivated on August 27, 2015. In addition, the escadre aérienne de commandement et de conduite projetable , a non-flying squadron for command tasks , was set up.
In the run-up to the planned closure of base 110 , the two squadrons "Vercors" and "Ventoux" with their " CASAs " moved to Évreux in July 2016.
The two Transall transport units are planned to be the second and third Atlas units in Bricy and the ET 1/64 "Béarn" was temporarily deactivated at the end of August 2017 prior to the conversion and relocation.
Todays use
The base currently (2018) houses the following associations:
- 64e escadre de transport (64e ET) with four flying squadrons, three for air transport, ET 2/64 "Anjou" (since 1983, Transall NG ), ET 1/62 "Vercors" and ET 3/62 "Ventoux" (both since 2016, both CN-235-200 / 300 ) and the early warning unit EEA 0/54 "Dunkerque" (Transall C-160 "Gabriel", came from Metz in summer 2011 ) -. There is also the maintenance group ESTA 15.064.
- GAM 0/56 "Vaucluse *, mixed flying group, flies its own Twin Otter , Super Puma and Cougar as well as borrowed transport machines
There are also some non-flying units such as the escadre aérienne de commandement et de conduite projetable , a squadron consisting of four non-flying groups for communication, observation, reconnaissance and operational command.
In addition, the French " Air Force One " Cotam 001 , an A330-200 , is stationed in Évreux-Fauville. This belongs to the VIP transport group ETEC 0/65 "Gaël", but can not operate from their home base in Villacoublay (BA 107) .
future
The A400M base Bricy is also the base of the French Hercules of the C-130H series. The German Air Force plans to operate its six C / KC-130Js from 2021 together with France, also with six French ones, in a joint air transport squadron, which is to be stationed in Évreux. France had previously announced that it would purchase four C-130Js.
Web links
- Homepage of the BA105 Évreux-Fauville
- Page of ET 1/62 “Vercours” on the EATC homepage
- Page of ET 3/62 “Ventoux” on the EATC homepage
- Page of ET 1/64 "Béarn" on the EATC homepage
- Page of ET 2/64 "Anjou" on the EATC homepage
Individual evidence
- ^ Deux Rafale sur la base aérienne 105, à Évreux: les Top Gun sont arrivés, Normandie Actu, March 14, 2017
- ↑ Nouvelles escadres aériennes: une cohérence opérationnelle accrue, des valeurs renforcées, website of the Armée de l'air, August 28, 2015
- ↑ Le "Vercors» et le «Ventoux» arrivent à Evreux, Le Journal d'Aviation, July 25, 2015
- ↑ Exclusive: Germany plans to buy six Lockheed C-130J aircraft for 900 million euros, Reuters, March 17, 2017
- ↑ France Confirms Buying Four C-130J US Transport Planes, Defense News, January 3, 2016