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Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport

airport serving Hassi Messaoud, Algeria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ25060 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport (French: Aéroport de Hassi Messaoud / Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem) (IATA: HME, ICAO: DAUH) is an airport serving Hassi Messaoud, a city in the Ouargla Province of eastern Algeria. It is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) southeast of the city. The airport is named for Krim Belkacem (1922–1970), an Algerian revolutionary fighter and politician.

Airlines and destinations

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External links

Google Maps - Oued Irara

Great Circle Mapper - Oued Irara

"Current weather for DAUH". NOAA/NWS.

Accident history for HME at Aviation Safety Network

"DAUH @ aerobaticsweb.org". Landings.com.

Editorial summary

“Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport” enters the record as airport serving Hassi Messaoud, Algeria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oued, Irara and Krim can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oued, Irara and Krim.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oued, Irara and Krim provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25060. Authority coordinates are 31.674, 6.141. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1922 and 1970.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport primary sources, Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport archive and Oued research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.