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{{Infobox airport
| name = Martuba Airbase
| nativename = Martuba Airport
| nativename-a = [[File:Free Libyan Airforce Fin Flash.svg|90px]]
| image = Bf 109F SAAF KJ-? on ramp.jpg
| IATA = DNF
| ICAO =
| type = Military/Public
| owner = [[Libyan National Army]]
| operator = [[Libyan Air Force (2011–present)|Libyan Air Force]]
| city-served =
| location = [[Martuba]], [[Libya]]
| elevation-f = 1235
| elevation-m =
| coordinates = {{coord|32|32|30|N|22|44|40|E|type:airport_region:LY|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map = Libya
| pushpin_label = '''DNF'''
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Libya
| website =
| metric-rwy = y
| r1-number = 14/32
| r1-length-m = 3620
| r1-length-f =
| r1-surface = Asphalt
| footnotes = Source: GCM<ref>{{GCM|DNF|Martubah Airport}}</ref> WAC<ref>{{cite web |title=Martubah Airport |url=https://www.world-airport-codes.com/libya/martuba-1892.html |website=World Airport Codes |access-date=13 September 2022}}</ref> Google Maps<ref>{{cite web |title=Martubah Airport |url=https://www.google.com/maps/@32.54107,22.74738,7904m/data=!3m1!1e3 |website=Google Maps |access-date=13 September 2022}}</ref>
}}

'''[[Martuba]] Airbase''' is a [[Libyan Air Force (1951-2011)|Libyan Air Force]] ({{lang-ar|القوات الجوية الليبية}}, [[Berber languages|Berber]]: '''Adwas Alibyan Ujnna''') base in the [[Derna District]] of [[Libya]], located approximately {{convert|27|km}} south-southeast of [[Derna, Libya|Derna]], and {{convert|268|km}} east-northeast of [[Benghazi]].

==History==
During [[World War II]] the airfield, then known as '''Martuba Airfield''', was used as a military airfield by the [[United States Army Air Force]] [[57th Fighter Group]], during the [[North African Campaign]] against [[Axis powers|Axis forces]]. The 57th flew [[P-40 Warhawk]]s from the airfield 16 November-3 December 1942.<ref>{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}
* Maurer, Maurer. ''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. {{ISBN|0-89201-092-4}}.
* {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II|orig-year=1969|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf |edition= reprint|year=1982|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-405-12194-6|oclc=72556|lccn=70605402}}
</ref>

Following the [[United Kingdom|British]] victory at [[El Alamein]] during the [[Second World War]], the airfield at Maturba<ref>Roy Conyers Nesbit, The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=444TDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Maturba&source=bl&ots=1JN1mzR0M9&sig=1G1nvJQoXtaJRqKJkqqopA5jkz8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo2OmCsNjUAhVJjZQKHa2uDq8Q6AEITDAI#v=onepage&q=Maturba&f=false p45-46].</ref><ref>Frederick Grice, War's Nomads: A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western (Casemate, 2015).[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9m5hCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=Maturba&source=bl&ots=ifbkoNSFdS&sig=quEyVC_T0qBhzUDTqDmV-atmkIU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo2OmCsNjUAhVJjZQKHa2uDq8Q6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&q=Maturba&f=false p11.]</ref> saw heavy fighting in 1942,<ref>Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wBriCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78&lpg=PT78&dq=Martuba&source=bl&ots=n6FmCt0gtb&sig=PMVoTeZE0M5kAhrDCszjekAt81g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJrPe1mNnUAhWHjJQKHaeRCGk4HhDoAQg4MAQ#v=onepage&q=Martuba&f=false A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945]: Volume 2: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943(Grub Street Publishing, 19 Jul. 2014).</ref><ref>Ken Delve Delve, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IoIlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT450&lpg=PT450&dq=Martuba&source=bl&ots=9KOeCR4dk0&sig=yiGpAFk3tANaOrKOsY568dZwP8U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJrPe1mNnUAhWHjJQKHaeRCGk4HhDoAQg8MAU#v=onepage&q=Martuba&f=false The Desert Air Force in World War II: Air Power in the Western Desert, 1940-1942] (Pen and Sword, 31 Mar. 2017).</ref> as [[Rommel]]'s [[Afrika Korps]] was pushed back from the [[Egypt]]ian border.

==Military use==
The airbase's primary use is by the Libyan Air Force, which has two sections at the base. The first section contains the main buildings and the hangars that house [[Mil Mi-2]] and [[Mil Mi-8]] helicopters. The second section is the flight-line containing taxiways, a ramp, and a single runway. The runway has an additional {{convert|300|m}} paved overrun on each end.

An [[Aeritalia G.222]] is stored on the ramp, but this section of the base appears to be a reserve facility.

==Civilian use==
The site is also used for the transportation of oil field workers from production facilities in the area.

==See also==
*[[Transport in Libya]]
*[[List of airports in Libya]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/32.5305/22.7464 OpenStreetMap - Martubah]
*[http://ourairports.com/airports/LY-DNF/ OurAirports - Martubah Airport]

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[[Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Libya]]
[[Category:Airports in Libya]]
[[Category:World War II airfields in Libya]]
[[Category:Libyan Air Force bases]]

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