Ain Beida Airport | |
Nativename: | French: Aéroport de Ouargla / Ain Beida |
Iata: | OGX |
Icao: | DAUU |
Pushpin Map: | Algeria |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Pushpin Mark: | Airplane_silhouette.svg |
Pushpin Label: | OGX |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Algeria |
Type: | Public / Military |
Operator: | EGSA Alger |
City-Served: | Ouargla |
Location: | Ouargla, Algeria |
Metric-Elev: | y |
Elevation-M: | 152 |
Elevation-F: | 499 |
Coordinates: | 31.9314°N 5.4067°W |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 02/20 |
R1-Length-M: | 3,000 |
R1-Length-F: | 9,843 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 18/36 |
R2-Length-M: | 3,000 |
R2-Length-F: | 9,843 |
R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Sources: AIP,[1] EGSA Alger,[2] DAFIF[3] [4] |
Ain Beida Airport (French: Aéroport de Ouargla / Ain Beida), also known as Ouargla Airport, is an airport serving Ouargla, a city in the Ouargla Province of eastern Algeria. It is located 4.30NaN0 southeast of the city. The airport is in the Sahara Desert, about 540 km southeast of Algiers.
The Ouargla (OUR) VOR-DME and Ouargla (OU) Non-directional beacon navigational aids are north of and aligned with the runways.[5]
During World War II the airport was known as Sedrata Airfield, and was used by the United States Twelfth Air Force in the Western Desert Campaign in 1942–1943. Known units assigned to the airfield were: