Güvercinlik Army Air Base
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Ankara Güvercinlik Army Air Base Ankara Güvercinlik Kara Hava Üssü |
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| Airport type | Military/civil | ||||||||||
| Owner | Turkish Army | ||||||||||
| Operator | General Staff controlled units General Command of Mapping Army Aviation School 1st Army Aviation Regiment Ankara Gendarmerie Aviation Group |
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| Serves | Ankara, Turkey | ||||||||||
| Location | Güvercinlik, Etimesgut, Ankara | ||||||||||
| Built | 1933 | ||||||||||
| In use | 1933-1955 civil 1958-2002 military 2002-present military/civil |
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| Elevation AMSL | 821 m / 2,694 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°56′05.82″N 032°44′26.79″E / 39.9349500°N 32.7407750°ECoordinates: 39°56′05.82″N 032°44′26.79″E / 39.9349500°N 32.7407750°E | ||||||||||
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 Ankara Güvercinlik AAB
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Source: DAFIF
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Ankara Güvercinlik Army Air Base, (Turkish: Ankara Güvercinlik Kara Hava Üssü) (ICAO: LTAB) is a military airport of the Turkish Army located in Güvercinlik of Etimesgut district, 10 km (6.2 mi) west of Ankara in central Turkey.
The air base hosts General Staff controlled units, General Command of Mapping's aviation unit, Army Aviation School, 1st Army Aviation Regiment and Ankara Gendarmerie Aviation Group. The airport is open to general aviation for civil domestic flights with permission.
With the foundation of the Turkish State Airlines Enterprise (Turkish: Devlet Hava Yolları İşletmesi) (DHY), the predecessor of the Turkish Airlines (THY), in 1933, regular domestic passenger flights started the same year between Ankara and Istanbul via a stopover in Eskişehir. The airport in Güvercinlik became the first airport of Ankara.
In 1935, a training and a maintenance service center were established by the Turkish Aeronautical Association (Turkish: Türk Hava Kurumu) at the airport. The center, called Türkkuşu (for "Türkish Bird"), carried out revision services to the DHY in two hangars until its relocation to the nearby airport in Etimesgut in 1945.
On February 13, 1947, the first international passenger flight of the DHY departed from the Güvercinlik Airport for Athens via Istanbul.
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