Le Bourget Airport

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Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget
Tarmac de l'aéroport du Bourget à Paris.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LFPB
IATA code LBG
Coordinates

48 ° 58 '10 "  N , 2 ° 26' 29"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '10 "  N , 2 ° 26' 29"  E
Height above MSL 66 m (217  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 7 km northeast of Paris
Street A1
train RER B
Basic data
opening 1919
operator Aéroports de Paris
surface 570 ha
Passengers 117,722 (2019)
Air freight 0 (2019)
Flight
movements 		48,100 (2019)
Employees 4,200
Runways
03/21 2665 m × 60 m asphalt
07/25 3000 m × 45 m concrete
09/27 1845 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Le Bourget Airport ( Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget , IATA code : LBG , ICAO : LFPB ) is an airport in Le Bourget near Paris , which for today business aviation is used and air shows.

history

The airport opened for commercial air traffic in 1919 and was the only Paris airport until the completion of Orly airport. Aircraft Transport & Travel operated flights from London to Paris as early as 1919 . It became famous when Charles Lindbergh landed after his historic crossing of the Atlantic (in a solo flight without a stopover) in 1927.

During the Second World War it was occupied by the Luftwaffe of the German Wehrmacht , of which the following active units (excluding school and supplementary associations) were stationed here between 1940 and 1944

From To unit equipment
June 1940 July 1940 III./KG 54 ( III.Group of Kampfgeschwader 54) Heinkel He 111P
January 1941 January 1941 I./StG 77 (I. Group of Sturzkampfgeschwader 77) Junkers Ju 87B
February 1941 July 1941 III./KG 26 ( III.Group of Kampfgeschwader 26) Heinkel He 111H
June 1942 July 1942 10./JG 26 (10th squadron of Jagdgeschwader 26) Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4 , Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-2
May 1944 June 1944 IV. TG 4 (IV. Group of Transport Wing 4) Lioré & Olivier LeO 451
August 1944 August 1944 II./KG 53 Heinkel He 111H-20

On June 16, 1961, Rudolf Nureyev resigned from the Kirov Ballet company and applied for political asylum.

In the 1960s, the airline Union de Transports Aériens built extensive shipyard facilities (UTA Industries), in which, among other things, two Super Guppy aircraft were manufactured in the early 1980s .

Le Bourget Airport has not been used for international air traffic since 1977, and domestic flights were also discontinued there in 1980, so that it is now only used by business air traffic.

During the Concorde accident on July 25, 2000, the pilots attempted an emergency landing in Le Bourget after take-off, but this was no longer successful.

use

At the airport there is also the French Museum of Aviation and Space ( Musée de l'air et de l'espace ); in addition, the Paris Air Show (French: Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace ) has been held every other year since 1953 . The French investigation authority for aircraft accidents, the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile (BEA), is also located on the airport premises.

Incidents

  • On January 26, 1948, an Air France Sud-Est SE.161 Languedoc (registration F-BCUC ) crashed on a training flight about 8 km south of Le Bourget airport in a furniture factory in the Paris suburb of Romainville . All 9 crew members were killed and two factory workers injured.
  • On 11 August 1951 near Moisville broke a Douglas DC-3D of Air France (flag F-BAXB ) apart on a test flight from Le Bourget airport from the air. All five crew members died.
  • On June 3, 1961, a Convair B-58 Hustler bomber of the US Air Force crashed while performing aerobatic maneuvers from the lowest altitude (code 59-2451 ). All three crew members were killed.
  • On 15 June 1965, a further bomber struck the type Convair B-58 Hustler of the US Air Force (Code 59-2443 ) while attempting a landing above the maximum allowable landing weight before the runway. The pilot was killed, the plane destroyed.
  • On June 3, 1973, the Tupolev Tu-144S crashed during the air show on the Paris suburb of Goussainville . All 6 people on board and a further 8 people were killed on the ground. Shortly before the crash, the machine went into a sharp dive for a reason that has not yet been clarified . When the pilots tried to intercept the dive, the structure was overloaded and the aircraft broke at a low altitude.
  • Again on June 3, this time in 1977, there was a crash during the air show when the pilot of a Fairchild Republic A-10 (registration number 75-0294 ) made three loops in a row with the aircraft . The aircraft lost too much altitude. The pilot tried to intercept the aircraft, but the tail hit the ground. Rescue workers were able to save the pilot quickly, but he died on the way to the hospital.

See also

literature

  • Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper . Berlin-Tempelhof. In: Berlin-Tempelhof , Liverpool-Speke , Paris-Le Bourget. Années 30 Architecture des aéroports, Airport Architecture of the Thierties, airport architecture of the thirties. Éditions du patrimoine, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-85822-328-9 , pp. 32-61.
  • Bob Hawkins (Ed.): Historic airports. Proceedings of the international "L'Europe de l'Air" conferences on Aviation Architecture Liverpool (1999), Berlin (2000), Paris (2001). English Heritage, London 2005, ISBN 1-873592-83-3 .

Web links

Commons : Le Bourget Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.aeroportsdeparis.fr/ADP/Resources/8ea1e99d-57bd-476c-b884-6eaab310c38e-LEBourgetCPenglish.pdf?wysistatpr=ads_moteur-synomia_gb
  2. ↑ a b c Statistics on the website of the Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, p. 16. (PDF; 2.3 MB) May 2020, accessed on May 20, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 France (with Corsica and Channel Islands) , accessed on September 5, 2014
  4. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 43 (English), December 1991, pp. 91/107.
  5. ^ Accident report DC-3 F-BAOB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 7, 2017.
  6. ^ Accident report Languedoc F-BCUC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 19, 2016.
  7. ↑ Air-Britain Aviation World (English), September 2016, p. 110.
  8. ↑ accident report Halifax F-BCJT , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on 19 August 2017th
  9. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 53 (English), June 1994, pp. 94/53.
  10. ^ Accident report DC-3 F-BAXB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
  11. ↑ Jacques Noetinger: Histoire de l'Aéronautique Française 1940–1980 . Editions France – Empire, Paris 1983, p. 22.
  12. ↑ Accident Report B-58 59-2451 , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on 14 June 2016th
  13. ^ Accident report B-58 59-2443 , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on June 14, 2016.
  14. ↑ Jacques Noetinger: Histoire de l'Aéronautique Française 1940–1980 . Editions France – Empire, Paris 1983, p. 23.
  15. ↑ Accident Report A-10 75-0294 , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on 19 August 2017th