Paris-Beauvais-Tille Airport

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Aéroport de Beauvais Tillé
Cola en los mostradores de facturación del aeropuerto París Beauvais Tillé.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LFOB
IATA code BVA
Coordinates

49 ° 27 '16 "  N , 2 ° 6' 46"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '16 "  N , 2 ° 6' 46"  E
Height above MSL 109 m (358  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 3.5 km northeast of Beauvais,
84 km north of Paris
Basic data
opening 1956
Terminals 2
Passengers 3,982,531 (2019)
Air freight 10 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		23,934 (2019)
Runways
04/22 708 m × 25 m asphalt
12/30 2430 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Beauvais-Tille Airport ( IATA : BVA , ICAO : LFOB ; . French Aéroport de Beauvais Tillé ) is an international commercial airport in the northern French region of Hauts-de-France . In terms of visitor numbers, it is one of the two most important airports in northern France, together with Lille-Lesquin airport . Beauvais-Tillé Airport is located near the center of Beauvais . For marketing reasons, the airport is referred to by some airlines as Paris-Beauvais-Tillé Airport , even though the French capital is 84 kilometers south. It is primarily used by low-cost airlines and counted just under four million travelers in 2016.

history

The airport was built in the 1930s. It was occupied by the German Air Force during World War II .

The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Wehrmacht Air Force that were stationed here between 1940 and 1944. During this time there was a satellite airfield about two kilometers further east, i.e. east of today's A-16 motorway and north of Nivillers, which did not have its own runway, but was connected to the main square via taxiways. The Air Force referred to it as Beauvais – Nivillers airfield .

From To unit
June 1940 October 1940 I./KG 76 (I. Gruppe des Kampfgeschwaders 76)
March 1941 May 1941 II./KG 77
August 1941 October 1941 III./KG 40
July 1942 August 1942 II./KG 54
September 1942 December 1942 II./KG 6
December 1942 February 1943 I./KG 6
March 1943 June 1943 I./KG 6
August 1943 October 1943 II./JG 26 (II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 26)
June 1944 June 1944 III./JG 1

The airfield was liberated at the beginning of September 1944 by Allied ground troops and poorly repaired. As Airfield A.61 , it served as a base for the Ninth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces from mid-September . The main user until mid-March 1945 was the 322d Bombardment Group , a B-26 association. In addition, the 1st Pathfinder Squadron (Provisional) was here until January 1945 . Later it was also approached by transport aircraft. In mid-August 1945 the airfield was returned to the French authorities.

With the beginning of the Cold War , the airfield became a backup base for NATO , but the standard for the operation of jet aircraft was not expanded, so that after 1953 the alliance no longer needed the Beauvais – Tillé Air Base .

In 1956 it was therefore able to be opened for civil aviation and in 1979 a civil terminal was opened. It was modernized from 2005 and has had a second terminal since 2010.

Unlike the other airports in the greater Paris area, Charles de Gaulle , Le Bourget and Orly , the airport is now operated by Aéroports de Paris , but by a municipal association .

Furnishing

The airport currently has two terminals 1 and 2 . The longest runway 12/30 is a Since 2009, instrument landing system category CAT III equipped and has since been able to fly even in unfavorable weather conditions.

Location and transport links

The airport is located near Beauvais , 84 km north of Paris and outside the borders of the French capital region Île-de-France in the Oise department . It is connected to Paris via the A16 autoroute . From Paris there are up to 16 daily bus connections to the airport in Beauvais. The entry point is located at the station Porte Maillot the Paris Métro . A one-way trip takes around 70 to 100 minutes, depending on the traffic.

Airlines and Destinations

Paris-Beauvais is mainly served by low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and Wizz Air , which connect it to several European destinations, including Milan and Stockholm , but also cities on the Mediterranean including Morocco .

Incidents

  • On April 14, 1966, an Airspeed Ambassador from Dan-Air ( G-ALZX ) touched down very late on landing, rolled over the end of the runway and collided with a pile of earth. The machine was damaged beyond repair. All 59 inmates survived.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Beauvais Tille. (pdf; 602 kB) AIP chart. (No longer available online.) In: AIP . Service de l'Information Aéronautique, France, March 7, 2013, p. 3 , formerly in the original ; accessed on March 25, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr  
  2. ↑ a b c Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 27, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 France (with Corsica and Channel Islands) , accessed on September 5, 2014
  4. ↑ Accident report DC-3 F-BAXL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 28, 2016.
  5. ^ Accident report Ambassador G-ALZX , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 28, 2016.