Rene Mouawad Air Base
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| Rene Mouawad Air Base مطار الرئيس الشهيد رينيه معوض |
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| IATA: KYE - ICAO: OLKA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Joint (civil and military) | ||
| Operator | Military-civil joint use airport | ||
| Serves | Tripoli, Lebanon | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 75 ft (23 m) | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 06/24 | 9,843 | 3,000 | Concrete |
Rene Mouawad Air Base (مطار الرئيس الشهيد رينيه معوض, Matar ar-Ra'is ash-Shahid Rinih Mu`awwad), formerly and still sometimes known as Kleyate Airport (مطار القليعات, Matar al-Qulay`at), is a military-civil joint use airport [1] in northern Lebanon, located near the town of El Qlaïaat (also spelled Al Qulay`at, Qulayaat, Kleyate).
The Lebanese Air Force expanded the existing civil airport at El Qlaïaat in the 1960s into an advanced air base [2].
In November 1989 Lebanon's parliament met at the airport after the Taif Agreement and elected Rene Mouawad president. He was assassinated in Beirut seventeen days later. The airport was later renamed in his honor.
In the 1990s Middle East Airlines ran flights between this air base and Beirut to serve the Tripoli area. [3]
On July 13, 2006, the Israeli Air Force bombed the air base during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. [4] The airport has since been repaired and is again serviced, mainly by the Lebanese Air Force. Although domestic flights may be flown in the near future connecting Beirut and Tripoli.
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