The Mission for Major Aeronautical Works in Germany La mission des grands travaux aéronautiques en Allemagne (MGTA) was a French government agency tasked with the construction of air bases in the territories controlled by France in occupied Germany after WWII. It was created on June 2, 1951.Légifrance, Arrêté du 21 octobre 1991 portant suppression de la mission des grands travaux aéronautiques In 1965, its territorial jurisdiction was extended to the French sector in West Berlin. In 1966, the MGTA left German territory when the French president Charles de Gaulle decided to downgrade France's membership in NATO.Le temps des ingénieurs de la navigation aérienne - Mémoire d'outre-mer 1945-1968 (p258) The MGTA was legally dissolved in 1991.
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