Évreux-Fauville Air Base
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The base aérienne 105 Évreux - Fauville (BA 105 ) is a military airfield in the French Air Force ( Armée de l'air ). The base is located in the Haute-Normandie region in Eure about five kilometers east of Evreux in the area of three municipalities Fauviel, Gauciel and Huest. It is equipped with Bricy one of two home bases of moderate transport aircraft of the Armée de l'air.
History
The aviation began in space Évreux in 1912 as an intermediate landing site for flights between Paris and the coast and on 9 June 1913, he was inaugurated as the first military airfield in France.
A new airfield was built after the outbreak of the Second Weltrkrieg from September 1939, which was in mid-May 1940, home to a flight school. After the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe used the place as a military airfield. The first association that was here, were in the second half of June 1940, the Bf 109E -equipped stick, II and III. Group of Jagdgeschwader 2 ( p, II and III. / JG 2).
Then two concrete runways were first created. Between June 1941 and January 1942 was the place of home bar and Season 3 of Battle Squadron 30 ( S. and 3./KG30 ), which was equipped with Ju 88A. The First Group of JG 2 (I. / JG 2) returned from June 1943, this time equipped Bf 109G and Fw 190A, for some time in the Normandy back.
In the years 1943/1944 the base was repeated target of Allied air raids and during the winter 1943/1944 (as of end of February 1944, in addition, 1 Squadron ) flew the Me 410 and the rod of Season 3 of Battle Squadron 51 ( p, 1 and 3./KF 51) their bets from here.
After the start of the Allied landing in Normandy, the airfield between early June and early July was the last time home Horst of interceptors of type Bf 109 G. Here first was by the end of June, the group II of Jagdgeschwader 3 (II. / JG 3) and already the middle of June in addition, the group II of Jagdgeschwader 5 (II. / JG 3). Then took the British Royal Air Force Airfield B.28, its Allied code - name, in the last Kriegsmomaten.
After the end of the war the facility was first used for several years as a civilian airport. After the beginning of the Cold War, however, Évreux - Fauville was again a military airfield and should have a base of operations of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE ), as part of the NATO integrated command structure. The expansion began in the summer of 1952, In May 1955 met with C -119 -equipped 465th Troop Carrier Wing at Evreux Air Base (in short: Evreux AB) a. The squadron was asked in March 1958 out of service. Exploited the main Evreux AB, however, was 1955-1964, the 322d Airlift Division which exercised command of the U.S. stationed in Europe Transportgeschewader. During this time rotated C -130 other bases routinely Évreux.
After France's withdrawal from the Alliance structures USAFE took and the Armée de l'air took over the airfield and took him henceforth as a transport air base. The first to use was the mixed group 0/ 56 " Vaucluse " and the base 105 1967 home of transport aircraft Nord 2501 Noratlas, first of Transportgrgruppe ET 1/64 " Béarn " in 1968 followed by the ET 2 /64 " Maine " and 1972 3/64 " Bigorre ". The group 2/64 was dissolved in 1977 and reorganized in the following years as ET 2 /64 " Anjou ".
The third group was disbanded in 1981 and the other two upgraded in the years 1981 and 1983 on the Transall NG. The last " Nora " left the base in July 1984. The base was named after the squadron commander " VoUl " in the Tonkin died in 1947, named in the same year.
Between 1987 and 2001, was the base next to the home of special operations units of the Force de frappe, first as a Group 1/59 " Astarté ", from 1992, reclassified as Group 0 /59 with the transport set 1/59 " Bigorre ".
Current usage
The base currently houses (2013 ) three squadrons of tactical transport aircraft and a squadron electronic reconnaissance:
- ET 1/64 " Béarn " transport group, equipped with the Transall NG, since 1981 ( as a second Atlas Group provided )
- ET 2 /64 " Anjou ", Transport Group, equipped with the Transall NG, since 1983 ( as the third Atlas squadron provided )
- EIE 1/340 Transall training group
- EEA 0/ 54 " Dunkerque " early warning group, equipped with the Transall C-160 " Gabriel ," came in the summer of 2011 from Metz
- GAM 0/ 56 " * Vaucluse, mixed group flying, flies his own Twin Otter, Super Puma and Cougar and borrowed transport machinery
In addition, the following non-flying associations.
Addition, it is also the French "Air Force One " Cotam 001, an A330 -200, stationed at Evreux - Fauville. This is part of the VIP transport group ETEC 0/ 65 " Gael ", however, their home base of Villacoublay (BA 107) do not operate.