Calais–Dunkerque Airport (french: Aéroport de Calais - Dunkerque) is an

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located in Marck, east-northeast of Calais, in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France

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. The airport also serves Dunkerque (a

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in the Nord department).

History

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the airport was busy with cross-channel service, including car ferry flights, by private airlines such as

Silver City Airways Silver City Airways was an airline, based in the United Kingdom, that operated mainly in Europe, between 1946 and 1962. Unlike many airlines at the time, it was independent of government-owned corporations; its parent company was Zinc Corpora ...

and

Channel Air Bridge Channel Air Bridge was a private British independentindependent from government-owned corporations airline specialising in cross- Channel vehicle-cum-passenger ferry services. Freddie Laker started Channel Air Bridge as a sister airline of Air ...

, later merged into

British United Air Ferries British United Air Ferries (BUAF) was a wholly private, British independentindependent from government-owned corporations car and passenger ferry airline based in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. It specialised in cross- Channel ferry flig ...

. On 9 July 2015, the Airbus E-Fan landed at Calais–Dunkerque Airport after a flight from

Lydd Airport London Ashford Airport is east of the town of Lydd and south of Ashford in the district of Folkestone and Hythe, in Kent, England. Originally named Lydd Ferryfield, it is now also known as London Ashford Airport, despite being from Lond ...

. Initially this was claimed as the first electric aircraft to cross the

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, but it has since been pointed out that there were previous such flights, including one as long ago as 1981.

Statistics

Facilities

The airport is at an

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of above

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. It has one paved

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designated 06/24 which measures .

References

External links

Aéroport Grand Calais
* * Airports in Hauts-de-France

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