Lorient Bretagne Sud airport

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Aéroport Lorient Bretagne Sud
Base aéronautique navale de Lann-Bihoué
The terminal des départs et arrivées de l'aéroport de Lorient..JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code LFRH
IATA code LRT
Coordinates

47 ° 45 '37 "  N , 3 ° 26' 23"  W Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '37 "  N , 3 ° 26' 23"  W.
Transport links
Distance from the city center 9 km west of Lorient
Street D 163E
Basic data
opening around 1942
operator Chambre de Commerce et de l'Industrie du Morbihan
Marine nationale
Terminals 1
Passengers 102,064 (2019)
Flight
movements 		3,356 (2019)
Runways
07/25 2403 m × 45 m asphalt
02/20 1670 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Lorient Bretagne Sud Airport ( IATA code LRT , ICAO code LFRH ) is the airport of the western French city of Lorient and is located in the French commune Ploemeur in the Morbihan department , about twelve kilometers west of Lorient. It is used both militarily and civilly. The civil part of the airport is administered by the IHK Morbihan. The largest military airfield in Europe with an area of ​​800 hectares is designated by the Navy Nationale as Base aéronautique navale de Lann-Bihoué .

history

The origins of aviation in the area Lorient date back to the time of the First World War, back when on the left bank of the Scorff , the so-called Pointe du Malheur , seaplanes and tethered balloons were used. Their tasks were the aerial reconnaissance of sea ​​mines and submarines . Regular military flight operations ended in 1920 and in the following years naval aviators only moved to Lorient for maneuvers in summer.

The start of flight operations with land planes at today's Lann Bihoué location began in 1938 by a local air sports club .

Nine months after France's defeat in the framework of the Western campaign in June 1940 started the German Air Force to build a military airfield , the two 2,000-meter runways equipped. Some hangars from then still exist today. The aircraft types stationed in Kerlin-Bastard , the name of the airfield at the time, included the Messerschmitt Bf 109 , Heinkel He 111 , Focke-Wulf Fw 200 , Bücker Bü 131 and Fieseler Fi 156 . The main user was the V. Gruppe des Kampfgeschwader 40 (V./KG40) equipped with Junkers Ju 88C-6 , which was stationed here between September 1942 and October 1943. Their tasks included securing the approach and departure of submarines stationed in Lorient in their areas of operation and the attack on the Allied convoy shipping in the sea area around Ireland . The site also served as a logistics hub, including crew swaps for submarine crews. The Americans finally abandoned the area around Lorient, which was heavily defended by the Wehrmacht , in the course of the Battle of Brittany at the end of 1944, so that the airfield was only returned to French authorities by the German occupation on May 10, 1945.

After the end of the war, the airfield became a base for French naval aviation, Aviation Navale (AVIA), or Aéronavale for short . The first flying units permanently stationed here were the Escadrille 1S from 1951 , equipped with Siebel Si 204 , PBY Catalina and Nord 1002, as well as the Flotilla 5F with its Curtiss SB2C . From 1952 an Avro Lancaster anti -submarine squadron was added. These and other Straffeln then flew special maritime patrol aircraft of the types Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune and Breguet Br-1150 Atlantic (from 1991/1992 the Atlantique 2). Between 1964 and 1968, two squadrons of carrier-based Crusader interceptors were stationed in Lorient and, from 1964, the 4F flotilla . She was equipped with a carrier-supported Breguet Br.1050 Alizé until 1997 and has been flying the Grumman E-2C Hawkeye since then . Between 1955 and 2000, the Escadrille 2S equipped with helicopters was also located here .

Technology at the airport

There is an ILS on RWY 25. HI / BI are available on 07/25.

Military use

Atlantique 2, recorded in Nordholz, 2013

The Aéronavale uses the base at the time (2012) as follows:

There are also some non-flying formations.

Civil use

The Air France subsidiary Hop! connects the airport 4 times a day with Paris-Orly and 3 times a day with Lyon (as of December 2013). Aer Arann flies seasonally to Ireland, destinations are Cork , Galway and Waterford . Lorient Bretagne Sud is also served by some charter airlines. There are no direct connections from German-speaking countries.

See also

Web links

Commons : Lorient Bretagne Sud airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 27, 2020 (French).