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Bastia – Poretta Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Bastia Poretta; co, Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta), ) is an airport serving
Bastia Bastia (, , , ; co, Bastìa ) is a commune in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest population of any commune on the is ...
on the French mediterranean island of Corsica. It is located south southeast of Bastia at Lucciana, both of which are ''
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'' of the Upper Corsica department.


History

In 1944, during
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, the airport was used by the
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. On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning. USAAF combat units assigned: *
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, (
Twelfth Air Force The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The command is the air component to ...
), 5 February–July 1944; 5 September – 13 October 1944, Bristol Beaufighter *527th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, (Twelfth Air Force), 12 July-23 September 1944, P-47 Thunderbolt *
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, (
Twelfth Air Force The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The command is the air component to ...
), 14–23 August 1944,
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* 417th Night Fighter Squadron, (
Twelfth Air Force The Twelfth Air Force (12 AF; Air Forces Southern, (AFSOUTH)) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). It is headquartered at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The command is the air component to ...
), February–April 1944; 25 April – 7 September 1944, Bristol Beaufighter * Maurer, Maurer. ''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. . * * 5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (
3d Reconnaissance Group 003, O03, 0O3, OO3 may refer to: * 003, fictional British 00 Agent * 003, former emergency telephone number for the Norwegian ambulance service (until 1986) * 1990 OO3, the asteroid 6131 Towen * OO3 gauge model railway * ''O03 (O2)'' and other rel ...
), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning * 23rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (
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), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning * 111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, (
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), 21 July – 27 August 1944, P-51/F-6 Mustang * 42nd Bombardment Wing was headquartered at the airfield, 21 September – 24 November 1944.


Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bastia – Poretta irport:


Statistics


References


External links


Bastia Airport
(official site)
''Aéroport de Bastia-Poretta''
at ''Union des Aéroports Français'' * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bastia - Poretta Airport Airports in Corsica
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Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in France Buildings and structures in Haute-Corse