Vannes airport
| Aéroport de Vannes-Golfe du Morbihan | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LFRV |
| IATA code | VNE |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 130 m (427 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 10 km north of Vannes |
| Street |
D 778E 9 km to the N 166 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1926 |
| operator | Edeis |
| surface | 108 ha |
| Runways | |
| 04/22 | 1530 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 08/26 | 1025 m × 60 m grass |
The Aéroport de Vannes-Golfe du Morbihan is a French airport. It lies in the region of Brittany in the department of Morbihan 8 km north-northeast of Vannes on the territory of the municipality Monterblanc . It is mainly used for general aviation .
history
The first flight movements at the airport formerly known as Vannes-Meucon took place in the 1920s and it was officially opened in July 1926.
In the 1930s it served as a military airfield for the Armée de l'air , which used it for pilot training. From 1935 onwards it was used for civilian purposes by the Vannes aviation club.
After the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht in the summer of 1940 , Vannes-Meucon became an airfield of the German Air Force . The infrastructure was then expanded for the Air Force.
The second season of the use of supplementary group of Jagdgeschwader 53 was from June to September 1941 in Vannes, she flew the Bf 109E / F . In October it was replaced by the 1st squadron of the supplementary group of Jagdgeschwader 51 , also with the Bf 109E. This season stayed here until January 1942.
With the III. Group of Jagdgeschwader 2 (III./JG 2), which was in Vannes from late November 1942 to October 1943, the airfield became the basis of a Fw 190A unit for the first time .
In the first half of June 1944, the Ju 88C of the 2nd Squadron of Destroyer Squadron 1 (2./ZG 1) flew and in the first week after the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy , the II, equipped with Bf 109G, lay next to it . Group of the Jagdgeschwader 53 . (II./JG 53).
The airport was targeted by Allied air raids by the American Eighth Air Force in 1943 .
After the area was liberated by the United States Army in mid-August 1944, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) used the site after a brief repair and maintenance work until the end of the war . Airfield A.33 , its allied code name, served the USAAF as a base for the Ninth Air Force . Among other things, the 425th Night Fighter Squadron with P-61 was located here in September / October 1944 and later it was used as a replenishment point and to transport the wounded back.
In mid-June 1945 the airfield was returned to the French. The heavily damaged airport was completely rebuilt. The main runway was renewed and a grass runway was created in place of an earlier second paved runway (13/31), which is still used as a parking lot today.
Todays use
The airport serves as the base for several companies in the air transport sector. In addition, some aero clubs used it .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edeis reprend l'ensemble des actifs français de SNC-Lavalin , accessed on February 27, 2017.