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Taxi
ignore the TAXI number in the pilot planning facility and use
TAXIS ABEILLE service 01 39 50 50 00. This worked ok in April 2010 and cost about 18euro into Versailles
perfect in the middle
perfect in the middle, stop for helicopters or plains, of France. Great people friendly and you can eat at the Mc Donalds 10 minutes walk.
Good landingfee 14 i'll guess and normal fuel prices.
refuelling and staying over
Campanile hotel 10 minutes away for sleeping and very nice food. The airport is not always open so call first. Nice people good prices like 14 for landing and normal fuelprices. Custom is kind of keen on N tailnumbers.
Public Transportation
There is public transportation. A city bus (stop at a 10 mn walk) with regular schedule rides to Versailles, and from there Paris, by train.
Cpt Roger Laurent -
During 1980 - 90 Cpt Roger Laurent was based at Villacoublay . A long term personal friend now living in Wales lost contact and would welcome any information in order to make contact again. email
LFPO Paris Orly NDB's
According to the "Service de l'Information Aéronautique" (SIA), (www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr)
NDB's OYE 349KHz and POY 430KHz are both discommissionned.
There are no longer NDB's on this airport.
A charming liitle airport
A very charming little airport with a friendly restaurant where in summer you can have lunch and dinner. No landing fee! Do land on the grass strip right next to the hard-surfaced runway with potholes which hasn't been used since World War II.
A taxi takes you to close-by St Valery for EU 10,00. Well worth a visit!
Security/Robbery
Please don't leave any valuables in the bungalows/tents, even if you are just out for dinner or swimming at the pool.
Concord crash site
On 25 July 2000, Air France flight 4590, a Concord, had just taken off from nearby Charles-de-Gaulle Airport (CDG) with its fuel tank on fire. It attempted to divert to Le Bourget, but was not able to make it, and crashed into a hotel short of Le Bourget.
re: Rochefort ???
Thanks - that must have been in the original data source. I've corrected it, based on the French Wikipedia article.
Rochefort ???
Err. No. Nowhere near Rochefort, which is in the South of France, typo there methinks.
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re: EastJet?
I would surely use it a couple of times a year
Enghien Misselles
Restricted use airfield located inside Paris CTR (Class A airspace). Do not intend to fly inbound this airfield unless your are invited by les Ailerons flying club.
Exquisite destination
Landed my Bonanza V35B there in July 2008. Absolutely gorgeous spot. Small inn right next to the airstrip, so you can eat lunch and sip coffee or beer while looking across the valley at Mont Blanc.
Under redevelopment
This is a former NATO, French, and USAF base. It's currently being redeveloped as a charter and cargo hub.
re: Closed?
Yes, the airport closed in 1989. It was actually a well-known airport before that. I found the information in the French Wikipedia.
re: Closed?
I agree, Paul. The Great Circle Mapper also has this airport, at almost the same location:
http://gc.kls2.com/airport/LFPR
On the other hand, the 2008-06 ICAO Location Indicators doc no longer lists LFPR, so it looks pretty likely that it's closed. Can anyone confirm when the airport shut down? I've tagged it with my "fixme" tag for now, so that I'll remember to come back to it.
Closed?
It sure doesn't look like an airport in the satellite photo.
Info
Nice airport. I have flown there several times with our friend in a Fournier RF5.
Went to the north (Cherbourg ) and the south ( Le Mont Saint Michel ).
Used for holiday traffic from Yersey (GB ) and internal from france.
Also 4 motor hanggliders for tourists.
LFKJ-AJA
According to the "Service de l'Information Aéronautique" (SIA) - www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr
Ajaccio airport is now called "Napoléon Bonaparte" stead of "Campo dell'Oro".
Paris Charles de Gaulle
Paris Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) is not very practicable. Difficulties to access by the périphérique "highway" crowded traffic (Trucks). Baggage claim zone is a terrible jungle. A positive point is the RER between Paris "Gare du Nord" and Terminals not very cheap but very easy to use and fast. Negative point, sometimes not reliable due to strikes.
Photo
There's a nice photo of this strip online:
EastJet?
Does anyone know of any airline that uses this airport? I think it would be great for someone like EasyJet to open up this route.
Toussus le Noble
This is one of the BIG General Aviation Airport in Paris for Pistons and Small Jets. Airport of Entry 7 days a week. No public transportation available to Paris, a better option if you dont mind grass strips is LFPZ 6NM north with two parallel runways
Terminal 1
I dont know what drugs were being used at the time by the architect that imagined that soviet-style concrete monstrosity. Not only is it ugly, but the baggage claim is an embarrassment with people walking on one another. When you think it's the first impression that so many holidaymakers are getting of France...
Other than for the bits that collapse on people underneath, T2 is somewhat more practical.
Well I am from the south of France, and we don't like Paris there, so maybe I have a bias.
Home
This place is dear to my heart because this is where I grew up, and most of my family still live here....
About 25 years ago my father had a little 20ft sailboat which was berthed at Port-Saint-Laurent (the marina you can see just west of the airport on the satellite picture). I remember once we were sailing and the Concorde just flew overhead on short final (it used to come every year in May for the Cannes festival and Monaco GP, one year there were five of them parked on the tarmac). I still remember this magic roar ! Simply out of this world !
I subsequently saw Concorde take off or land in CDG, LHR and JFK, but nothing beat that memory. I always wanted to fly on Concorde but unfortunately that will never happens, however I feel privileged for having seen (and heard) it in flight.
RER
The RER (the commuter light rail system) runs directly into Paris, and you can use the same ticket to transfer to the Paris Metro or another RER line. It's very inexpensive (about 8.10 euros, I think).
Information en detail
🔗 Mon, 31 May 2010
— Anonymous Flyer at Barcelonnette - Saint-Pons Airfield, France
-> fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9roport_de_Barcelonnette-Saint-Pons