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Mohamed Boudiaf International Airport serves the city of Constantine in north-eastern Algeria, sitting on a plateau some nine kilometres south of the city at an elevation of 2,293 feet. It offers two long, ILS-equipped hard runways and handles substantial scheduled international and domestic traffic, making it a straightforward destination for instrument approaches as well as VFR arrivals in good weather.
Mohamed Boudiaf International Airport (ICAO: DABC) is a large international airport serving Constantine, the principal city of eastern Algeria. It is operated by EGSA-Constantine and is named after Mohamed Boudiaf, a founder of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and briefly head of state of Algeria. For a simulator pilot it offers two substantial hard runways with ILS on both main approach directions, set against the dramatic plateau country of the Constantine region.
The airfield lies at coordinates 36.2853 N, 6.6192 E, at an elevation of 2,293 feet above mean sea level, approximately 9 kilometres south of the city of Constantine and about 320 kilometres east-southeast of Algiers. As a major international gateway it sits within controlled airspace served by its own approach and tower control.
The airport has two physical runways. Runway 16/34 is 9,802 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS serving the 34 approach direction. Runway 13/31 is 7,844 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS serving the 31 approach direction.
Approach control operates as Constantine Approach on 120.1 MHz, and the tower operates as Constantine Tower on 118.3 MHz. Instrument approaches are available, with ILS equipment fitted to runway 34 and runway 31.
The airfield was built in 1943 as Constantine Airfield by the United States Army during the North African Campaign of the Second World War. It served primarily as a maintenance and supply depot for the Air Technical Service Command and also functioned as the headquarters for XII Bomber Command as a command and control base. In February 1943 it was used as a command post for the Allied Forces Command (AFHQ), coordinating Free French, British and United States ground forces under General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander as the US First Army advanced from the west and the British Eighth Army from the east against the German Afrika Korps. The airfield was handed over to the Algerian government in 1944 and continued to see occasional use by Air Transport Command aircraft on the North African route until the end of the war. It was later renamed in honour of Mohamed Boudiaf, an Algerian political leader and FLN founder who briefly served as head of state before his assassination in 1992.
Today Mohamed Boudiaf International Airport functions as a major scheduled and charter gateway for Constantine, handling domestic and international traffic. It is equipped with dual hard runways of 9,802 feet and 7,844 feet, both lit and served by ILS approaches, reflecting its role as a significant international airport rather than a light-aviation field.
