Bastia – Poretta Airport
Bastia – Poretta Airport
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, both of which are communes of the Upper
Corsica department.
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.
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