Ain Beida Airport Explained

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]

World War II

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:

References

  1. AIP and Chart for DAUU – OUARGLA / Ain Beida from Service d'Information Aéronautique - Algerie
  2. Aéroport de Ouargla : Ain Beida from Établissement de Gestion de Services Aéroportuaires d’Alger (EGSA Alger)
  3. Web site: usurped. Airport information for DAUU. https://web.archive.org/web/20190305143444/http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?airport=DAUU. 2019-03-05. World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  4. https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9172748,5.4126376,5430m/data=!3m1!1e3 Google Maps - Ouargla
  5. Web site: SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts. skyvector.com. 2018-08-20.