Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport

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Aéroport Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne
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Characteristics
ICAO code LFLC
IATA code CFE
Coordinates

45 ° 47 '9 "  N , 3 ° 9' 44"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 47 '9 "  N , 3 ° 9' 44"  E
Height above MSL 332 m (1089  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6 km east of Clermont-Ferrand
Basic data
operator VINCI Airports
surface 370 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 432,339 (2019)
Air freight 2,371 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		8,451 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		4,000,000
Runways
08/26 3015 m × 45 m asphalt
08/26 960 m × 60 m grass
01/19 1075 m × 100 m grass

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The Aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne ( IATA code CFE , ICAO code LFLC ) is an airport on the territory of the municipality of Aulnat around ten kilometers east of Clermont-Ferrand in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme . The airport is open from 5:00 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. With its 4,600 m² terminal, the airport is designed for a passenger capacity of 4,000,000. However, the number of passengers is declining. The size of the cargo area is 450 m² with a cargo capacity of 3,500 t. Taxis are available at the airport for onward travel. Rental car companies are also based at the airport.

history

Aviation in Clermont-Ferrand began in 1908 at an airfield called Gravanches and the airport at today's location was opened in 1916 as the Aérodrome d'Aulnat, in particular as a factory airfield for the tire manufacturer Michelin . Michelin also built aircraft during the First World War , mostly under license from Breguet . At that time, the world's first paved runway was built here. In addition, bomber crews were trained here.

Military school operations continued in 1925 and the first civil flight connection was established in 1929, as a connection from Geneva to Bordeaux.

In the mid-1930s, the Aulnat airfield began to be used more widely by the military, which the French Air Force referred to as Base aérienne 745 (BA 745). Aulnat became the base of a group of observation aircraft, the Groupe aérien d'Observation (GAO). In addition, a military maintenance company, the Ateliers Industriels Aéronautiques (AIA), opened here in 1939 after two years of construction . When the war broke out, military training flight operations were relocated to Vichy at the beginning of September 1939 and the GAO relocated to their operational area.

After the armistice of 1940 , the airfield was initially in the territory of the Vichy regime and was only occupied by the Wehrmacht at the end of 1942 . The airfield was used in the spring of 1943 by the II. Group of the Schlachtgeschwaders 101 (II./SG 101) of the German Air Force . The group flew Ar 96 , Fw 190 and Hs 129 . Between April 1943 and April 1944, the C 7 pilot school was located here , which was renamed B 7 pilot school in October 1943 and had a number of different aircraft types in its inventory. The airfield was repeatedly the target of Allied air raids in May / June 1944 and was cleared by the Germans at the end of August 1944.

After the end of the war, military school operations were resumed by the Armée de l'air . The T-6 was flown between 1953 and 1958 . After a three-year break, schooling began in early 1962 on Fouga Magister , which was reinforced in 1970 by the Mudry CAP 10 . The units entrusted with the training were reclassified and renamed again and again, most recently since 1977 the Groupement Instruction 313 . The military BA 745 was closed in 1985, but the AIA remained in place.

In 1961 Air Inter started the connection to Paris and the current terminal was built in 1973 and expanded in 1992. The civil terminal was expanded by three satellites in 2000.

Since 2008, 40% of the airport has been owned by the region, 32% by the Clermont municipal association and 28% by the département. The first operator was a consortium of Vinci and Keolis . Vinci has been operating the airport alone since January 2015, and the operating contract runs for 12 years.

Technology at the airport

There is an instrument landing system of category CAT III and PAPI on runways 08/26. Jet A1 and AVGAS can be refueled at the airport.

Flight connections

The airport is served by Air France . Scheduled flight destinations are Ajaccio , Amsterdam , Bastia , Lyon , Nantes , Nice , and Paris Orly and Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle. In addition, the airport is served by numerous charter airlines. The seasonal connection with Southampton (May 21 to September 24) will be operated from 2011 (airline: Flybe).

Incidents

  • On December 28, 1971, the failure of engine number 4 (far right) was simulated in a Vickers Viscount 708 of Air Inter ( aircraft registration F-BOEA) when starting a training flight from Clermont-Ferrand airport. There was a loss of control, the machine went off the runway and was irreparably damaged. The two pilots (only occupants) survived the accident.
  • On October 27, 1972, a Vickers Viscount 724 of Air Inter (F-BMCH) collided on the flight from Lyon-Bron to Clermont-Ferrand with the Pic du Picon mountain, about 44 kilometers east of the destination airport. Probably due to incorrect readings in the radio compass (ADF) as a result of atmospheric electrical discharges, the pilots lost their orientation and had to fly into the mountain. Of the 68 occupants, 60 were killed, only 8 passengers survived.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 24, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Accident report Viscount 708 F-BOEA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 10, 2019.
  3. ↑ Accident report Viscount 724 F-BMCH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 2, 2019.