Merville–Calonne Airport
Merville - Calonne Airport Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) B-53 Aéroport de Merville - Calonne | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Merville, Nord, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Calonne-sur-la-Lys | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 61 ft / 19 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°37′00″N 002°38′24″E / 50.61667°N 2.64000°E / 50.61667; 2.64000 | ||||||||||||||
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  LFQT Location of airport in France | |||||||||||||||
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Merville – Calonne Airport (IATA: HZB, ICAO: LFQT) is a regional airport in France. It is located 3 km (2 miles) south of Merville,[1] in northern France. The airport supports general aviation with no commercial airline service scheduled.
History
The airport was originally built by Nazi Germany after the occupation of France in 1940 as a Luftwaffe base (Fliegerhorst Merville), as part of the defences of the Pas de Calais area. After the area was liberated in 1944 it was converted by United States Army Air Forces engineers into an allied airfield. The airport was used by the Royal Air Force as Advanced Landing Ground B-53 Merville.
The airfield has numerous wartime relics, including many bunkers.
Facilities
The airport has air traffic control services and two runways oriented north-south (04/22):
- A paved runway of 1,840 by 30 metres (6,037 ft × 98 ft)
- A 1,000 by 80 metres (3,281 ft × 262 ft) grass runway.
There is a small (195 square metres (2,099 sq ft)) terminal building and a restaurant.
Statistics
References
- ^ a b LFQT – MERVILLE CALONNE. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 18 April 2024.
- ^ (in French) Aéroport de Merville - Calonne (HZB / LFQT) Archived 2012-09-02 at the Wayback Machine at Union des Aéroports Français
- French Wikipedia article
- 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
- Airport information for LFQT at Great Circle Mapper.