Bastia – Poretta Airport
Bastia – Poretta Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bastia, Corsica, France | ||||||||||
| Location | Lucciana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E [19] | ||||||||||
| Website | bastia.aeroport.fr [20] | ||||||||||
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  LFKB Location of the airport in Corsica  LFKB LFKB (France) | |||||||||||
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Bastia – Poretta Airport (French: Aéroport de Bastia Poretta, IATA: BIA, ICAO: LFKB) is an airport serving Bastia on the French mediterranean island of Corsica. It is located 17 km (11 mi) south southeast of Bastia at Lucciana,[1] both of which are communes of the Upper Corsica department.
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bastia, Corsica, France | ||||||||||
| Location | Lucciana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E [19] | ||||||||||
| Website | bastia.aeroport.fr [20] | ||||||||||
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LFKB Location of the airport in Corsica LFKB LFKB (France) | |||||||||||
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History
Airphoto of Borgo Airfield, 15 August 1944. Note the large number of B-17s on the parking apron, probably used during the Invasion of Southern France
In 1944, during World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force. 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:
414th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 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
416th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 14–23 August 1944, P-61 Black Widow
417th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), February–April 1944; 25 April – 7 September 1944, Bristol Beaufighter[3]
5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
23rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, (XII Tactical Air Command), 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
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Corsica | Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris-Orly Seasonal: Charleroi,[4] Dole, Liège,[5] London-Stansted, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle,[6] Toulon |
| Air France | Paris-Orly Seasonal: Bordeaux, Castres, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Metz-Nancy, Montpellier, Nantes, Pau, Perpignan, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| ASL Airlines France | Seasonal: Oujda, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Atlantic Airways | Seasonal: Copenhagen |
| British Airways | Seasonal: London-Heathrow[7] |
| BMI Regional | Seasonal: Bristol |
| Brussels Airlines | Seasonal: Brussels[8] |
| Chalair Aviation | Seasonal: Limoges, Perpignan[9] |
| easyJet | Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Lyon, Manchester, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse, Venice |
| easyJet Switzerland | Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva |
| Eurowings | Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna |
| Flybe | Seasonal: Birmingham, Southampton |
| HOP! | Seasonal: Angers, Bordeaux, Rouen |
| Iberia | Seasonal: Madrid[10] |
| Lufthansa | Seasonal: Munich, Frankfurt |
| Luxair | Seasonal: Luxembourg |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Brussels |
| Volotea | Seasonal: Brest, Bordeaux, Caen, Lille, Madrid,[11] Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse |
| Vueling | Seasonal: Barcelona |