Dole–Jura Airport

Coordinates: 47°02′34″N 005°26′06″E / 47.04278°N 5.43500°E / 47.04278; 5.43500
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Dole–Jura Airport

Aéroport de Dole-Jura

(Advanced Landing Ground Y-7)
AMSL
645 ft / 197 m
Coordinates47°02′34″N 005°26′06″E / 47.04278°N 5.43500°E / 47.04278; 5.43500
Websiteaeroportfranchecomte.com
Maps
Location of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France
Location of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France
LFGJ is located in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
LFGJ
LFGJ
Location of airport in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 2,230 9,186 Asphalt
Sources: French AIP,
UAF,[2] DAFIF[3][4]

Dole–Jura Airport (French: Aéroport de Dole-Jura[2]) (IATA: DLE, ICAO: LFGJ), also known as Dole–Besançon–Dijon Airport (Aéroport de Dole-Besançon-Dijon[5]), is an airport serving Dole, a commune in the Jura department[1] in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The airport is located 7 km (4 NM) southwest of Dole,[1] and southeast of Tavaux. It was formerly known as Dole–Tavaux Airport. The airport is used for general aviation, and for a few commercial airline services.

History

During

Advanced Landing Ground
Y-7. Units that were assigned to the airfield were:

  • P-47 Thunderbolt
    (12th AF)
  • 371st Fighter Group, 1 October-20 December 1944,
    P-47 Thunderbolt
    , (9th AF)
  • B-26 Marauder
    (12th AF)

With the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, the Americans began to withdraw their aircraft and personnel. Control of the airport was returned to French civil authorities on 17 July 1945.[6]

Today, the airport's World War II history remains with the alert pads built by the Germans at each end of the main runway. What appears to be a weapons storage facility is located to the northeast of the airfield, along with some deteriorating concrete wartime taxiways. In some agricultural fields to the south of the main runway appear to be dispersal taxiways and what once was an aircraft maintenance area with covered hangars constructed in woods. The taxiways are now being reduced in width to single-lane agricultural roads

Facilities

The airport resides at an

grass surface measuring 800 by 50 metres (2,625 ft × 164 ft).[1]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Dole–Jura Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Air Corsica Seasonal: Bastia
Porto

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at DLE airport. See Wikidata query.

See also

  • Advanced Landing Ground

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  1. ^ a b c d LFGJ – Dole Tavaux. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 18 April 2024.
  2. ^
    Union des Aéroports Français
  3. ^ Airport information for LFGJ[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  4. ^ Airport information for DLE at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  5. ^ Airport page at CCI du Jura
  6. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
    • Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
      ISBN 0-89201-092-4
      .
    • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
      OCLC 72556
      .
    • Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

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