The based aircraft are Beechcraft 1900, EADS CASA C-295, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Ilyushin Il-76.

[4] On 3 May 1943, Charles de Gaulle landed at Boufarik airport, flying in from Gibraltar.

He would remain based in Algeria until mid-1944 and the Liberation of France.

[5] On 11 April 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 operated by the Algerian Air Force crashed just after takeoff from this airport, killing about 257 passengers on board.

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