Issy-les-Moulineaux helipad
| Heliport de Paris - Issy-les-Moulineaux | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LFPI |
| IATA code | JDP |
| Coordinates | |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 6.6 km southwest of Paris |
| Street | Boulevard périphérique |
| Local transport | Paris tram |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1956 |
| operator | Aéroports de Paris |
| surface | 6 ha |
| Flight movements |
15,000 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 06/24 | 350 m × 50 m grass |
The Heliport de Paris - Issy-les-Moulineaux is a heliport in the 15th arrondissement of Paris near the municipality of Issy-les-Moulineaux . Before its current use as a heliport, it was used as an airfield ( French champ d'aviation d'issy-les-moulineaux , Issy-les-Moulineaux airfield ) and was the first place with hangars in 1907 .
history
The Paris military training area was located on the Champ de Mars until the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 . After that, a new training area was made available to the military in Issy-les-Moulineaux .
The first glider flights took place here in 1905 . In March 1905, Archdeacon started a Wright glider weighted with sand on a rope with a 60 hp engine , which rose like a kite up to 30 m before it fell. Then Blériot , Santos Dumont , Farman and others began to use the space. The first hangars were built in the second half of 1907. The airfield developed into the first center of French aviation. It was the scene of numerous flight experiments, first flights and flight competitions, of which domestic and foreign media reported.
On January 13, 1908, the French aviation pioneer Henri Farman won the Grand Prix d'Aviation donated by Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe at the Issy-les-Moulineaux airfield in an airplane owned by Gabriel Voisin . The prize was offered for the first flight of an “aircraft heavier than air” over a closed route of at least one kilometer in front of a commission from the Aéro-Club de France . Farman's flight lasted 1 minute and 28 seconds. A memorial by Paul Landowski in front of the heliport on Rue Henri Farman has commemorated this flight since 1929.
The first flight of Léon Levavasseur's Antoinette IV on October 9, 1908 and further test flights were also carried out on the field.
The last flight of a fixed-wing aircraft took place in 1953. The French group of companies Aéroports de Paris (ADP) has been operating a heliport on the site since 1956 .
location
Located on the boulevard périphérique outside the center of Paris, the helipad is accessible from line 2 , line 3 of the Paris tram and the Balard stop of metro line 8 of the Paris underground .
The arrival and departure of the helicopters take place over the Seine or the Périphérique for safety and noise protection reasons . The flight time to London by helicopter would be just under an hour and a half.
use
The French General Directorate for civil aviation Direction générale de l'aviation civile (DGAC) is located on the site. There is also a hotel belonging to the French hotel chain Sofitel in the immediate vicinity .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Aviation Timeline. In: Century of Flight. pilotfriend.com, accessed April 12, 2019 .
- ^ Hermann WL Moedebeck : Flight technology. Henri Farman and R. Esnault-Pelterie . In: Oberrheinischer Verein für Luftschiffahrt (Hrsg.): Illustrated Aeronautical Messages . No. 12 . Braunbeck & Gutenberg, Berlin 1907, p. 446–451 ( IAM on volaticum [accessed April 12, 2019]).
- ^ Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith: The Airplane: An Historical Survey of Its Origins and Development . Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1960.
- ↑ Approach map at aviaxess.com ( memento of the original from March 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
