Calais–Dunkerque Airport (french: Aéroport de Calais - Dunkerque) is an
airport
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located in
Marck, east-northeast of
Calais
Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. Th ...
,
in the
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
department
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in the
Hauts-de-France
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region
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of
France
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. The airport also serves
Dunkerque
Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.[commune
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in the
Nord
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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
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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 C ...
, later merged into
British United Air Ferries
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.
On 9 July 2015, the
Airbus E-Fan
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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 Lon ...
. Initially this was claimed as the first electric aircraft to cross the
English Channel
The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...
, 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
elevation
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of above
mean sea level
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. It has one paved
runway
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designated 06/24 which measures .
References
External links
Aéroport Grand Calais*
*
Airports in Hauts-de-France
Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
Transport in Pas-de-Calais
Buildings and structures in Pas-de-Calais
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