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Boufarik Air Base
IATA: none ICAO: DAAK
Summary
Airport type	Military
Serves	Boufarik, Algeria
Elevation AMSL	102 m / 335 ft
Coordinates	36°32′45″N 2°52′34″E / 36.54583°N 2.87611°E / 36.54583; 2.87611 (Boufarik Airport (Boufarik))
Map
Boufarik Air BaseLocation of airport in Algeria
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04/22 3,622 11,883 Concrete
Source: DAFIF Landings.com Google Maps

Boufarik Airport (ICAO: DAAK) is a military airport near Boufarik, Algeria. It is the home base for the Air Transport fleet of the Algerian Air Force.

The based aircraft are Beechcraft 1900, EADS CASA C-295, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Ilyushin Il-76. It has the 2e Escadre de Transport Tactique et Logistique and the 7e Escadre de Transport Tactique et de Ravitaillement en vol homebased.

History

On 3 May 1943, Charles de Gaulle landed at Boufarik airport, flying in from Gibraltar. He would remain based in Algeria until mid-1944 and the Liberation of France.

On 11 April 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 operated by the Algerian Air Force crashed just after takeoff from this airport, killing about 257 passengers on board.

Notes

1. "Airport information for Boufarik". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05. Data current as of October 2006.
2. "DAAK @ aerobaticsweb.org". Landings.com. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
3. Google Maps - Boufarik
4. scramble.nl
5. Jacques Barchilon (4 November 2018). "An (Almost) Unknown Moment in the Life Of General De Gaulle". Open Heart, Open Hands.

External links

• "DAAK @ aerobaticsweb.org". Landings.com.
• OurAirports - Boufarik

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