Paris - Le Bourget Airport

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Paris - Le Bourget Airport Aéroport de Paris - Le Bourget

IATA: LBG – ICAO: LFPB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aéroports de Paris
Location		Le Bourget
Elevation AMSL		218 ft / 66 m
Coordinates		48°58′10″N 002°26′29″E / 48.96944, 2.44139
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
03/21	8,743	2,665	Asphalt
07/25	9,843	3,000	Concrete
09/27	6,053	1,845	Asphalt

Paris - Le Bourget Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris - Le Bourget) (IATA: LBG, ICAO: LFPB) is an airport located in Le Bourget and Dugny, 12 km north-northeast (NNE) of Paris, France. It is now used only for general aviation (business jets) as well as air shows.

The airport started commercial operations in 1919 and was for long Paris' only airport until the construction of Orly Airport. It is most famous as the landing site for Charles Lindbergh's historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927, as well as the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), an aircraft which took off in its own attempt at a transatlantic flight but then mysteriously disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic (or possibly the American state of Maine).

In 1977 Le Bourget airport was closed to international traffic and in 1980 to regional traffic, leaving only business jets to operate.

Le Bourget Airport hosts the French Museum of Air and Space (Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace), and, on odd years, the Paris Air Show.

This airport contains a statue commemorating Frenchwoman Raymonde de Laroche who was the first woman to earn a pilot's licence. There is also a monument honoring Lindbergh, Nungesser, and Coli.