Cherbourg – Maupertus Airport
| Cherbourg - Maupertus Airport Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus |
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| IATA: CER – ICAO: LFRC | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | SNC-Lavalin France | ||||||||||
| Serves | Cherbourg-Octeville | ||||||||||
| Location | Maupertus-sur-Mer | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 459 ft / 140 m | ||||||||||
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| Website | cherbourg.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||
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- For the military use of this facility, see: Maupertus-sur-Mer Airfield
Cherbourg – Maupertus Airport or Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus (IATA: CER, ICAO: LFRC) is an airport located 11 km east of Cherbourg-Octeville,[1] between Maupertus-sur-Mer and Gonneville. These are all communes of the Manche département in the Basse-Normandie région of France. The airport is managed by SNC-Lavalin Airports (subsidiary of the large Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin) since 1 October 2009.
It has one runway, Runway 10/28. It is 2440 metres long and is covered in asphalt. There are six bays, numbered N1 to N6. There are currently no scheduled flights operating to or from the airport. Until early 2008 there was one scheduled flight a day from Paris to Jersey via Cherbourg although this has now been withdrawn.
Charter flights occasionally operate to and from the airport.
Airlines and destinations
No destinations served at present, as Twin Jet dropped services to Jersey and Paris Orly followed by Chalair and also Airlinair (who had taken over the service to Paris), which both failed to make links to Paris profitable.
History
The airport was first built in 1937 as a French Air Force military airfield. It was captured and used by the German Luftwaffe during the Occupation of France, and sized by the United States Army on 27 June 1944 during the liberation of the Cherbourg area. It was used as a fighter and bomber airfield by the United States Army Air Forces in 1944. After the Americans moved east into Central France with the advancing Allied Armies, the airfield was used as a resupply and casualty evacuation airfield for several months, before being closed on 22 December 1944. It was then turned over to French authorities.[2]
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 LFRC – Cherbourg Maupertus (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 18 Apr 2024.
- ↑ Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
External links
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- Advanced Landing Ground A-15 Memorial
- Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus (French)
- Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus (Union des Aéroports Français) (French)
- Airport information for LFRC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
- Current weather for Cherbourg / Maupertus, France (LFRC) at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for CER at Aviation Safety Network
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