Английская Википедия:Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault" Airport

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Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault" Airport (Шаблон:Lang-fr, Шаблон:Airport codes), formerly known as Châteauroux-Déols "Marcel Dassault" Airport, is an airport serving the French city of Châteauroux.[1] The airport is located Шаблон:Convert north-northeast of Châteauroux[1] in Déols, a commune of the Indre department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. The airport is named after Marcel Dassault and is located on the site of the former Châteauroux-Déols Air Base. It is dedicated to air freight, aeronautical maintenance, pilot training and training of airport firefighters.

Facilities

Châteauroux-Centre Airport resides at an elevation of Шаблон:Convert above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 03/21 which measures Шаблон:Convert.[1] The airport is used by both passenger and cargo planes.

Châteauroux-Centre Airport serves as a pilot training site for both commercial and military planes. Users of the facility include: Airbus, Air Caraïbes, Air France, ATR, the Belgian Air Force, British Airways, EasyJet, KLM, the French Air and Space Force, French Bee, Hi Fly, Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines and Transavia France with all types of aircraft up to the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747.[2]

In the years 1990 to 2000, the airport was used regularly by Air France and British Airways to train future pilots and flight crews for Concorde.[3]

The Châteauroux airport has also devoted part of its activity to air freight. Its predominantly industrial vocation allows it to handle all types of aircraft (such as the An-225) and cargo 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is a transit airport that does not no "slot"[4] and relies on road transport.

Since August 2020, Châteauroux-Centre airport has been one of 23 pelicandromes for the supply of sécurité civile Bombardier Q400MR in case of need. [5]

Since 1 January 2000, the Châteauroux-Centre airport has been an 'authorized cargo security agent'. It is one of the few French airports that made this approach and obtained the approval of the French Civil Aviation Authority. (DGAC) This allows it to offer shippers, carriers and freight forwarders a "cargo security" service controlled by the airport security supervisor.

The airport has a large aeronautical maintenance area called " Chateauroux Air Center " on which the following companies are installed in 2024:

Thus, the airport is a "one stop shop"; that is to say that a commercial aircraft owner (airline, lessor) finds all the activities (storage, maintenance, painting, cargo conversion, dismantling and recycling) on one and the same site.

C2FPA, an airport fire fighter training center, is based at Châteauroux-Centre Airport. The center offers certification specializing in areas like aviation fire protection and wildlife hazard control.

The business cluster Aérocentre is located on the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The airport offers for 2024 around ten "charter" flights during the spring-summer season, such as Portugal, Canary Islands, Croatia and Montenegro, Malta, Jordan or Greece.[11]

Cargo

There are no regular cargo flights at Chateauroux airport. Currently, only cargo charter flights are operated.

Statistics

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Access

The A20 passes close to the airport.

The airport is served by bus number 6 from the centre of Chateauroux.[12]

References

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External links

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