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°ECoordinates: 50°37′00″N 002°38′24″E / 50.61667°N 2.64000°E | ||||||||||||||
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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 the Nord department of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France. The airport supports general aviation with no commercial airline service scheduled.
History
Originally built by Germans as a Luftwaffe airfield (Fliegerhorst Merville) as part of the defenses of the Pas de Calais area. Later converted by USAAF engineers into an allied airfield. The airport was used by the Royal Air Force as Advanced Landing Ground B-53 Merville.
Airfield has numerous wartime relics, including many bunkers.
Runways
The airport has two runways oriented north-south (04/22):
- A 1,840 by 30 metres (6,037 ft × 98 ft) paved runway featuring markup day and night, a precision approach path indicator (PAPI) for each landing direction, and an instrument landing system (ILS) associated with a distance measuring equipment (DME) for the landing direction 22.
- A 1,000 by 80 metres (3,281 ft × 262 ft) grass runway.
Services
The airfield is controlled and has an Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS). Communication is the frequency of 127.900 MHz for the ATIS, 126.475 MHz or 120.275 MHz for the approach, 119.075 MHz for the tower and 121.675 MHz for the ground. It is approved for visual flight rules (VFR) and instrument flight rules (IFR).
Addition services include: a 9,540 square metres (102,688 sq ft) parking area, a 195 square metres (2,099 sq ft) terminal, a fuel (100LL and Jet A-1) and lubricant supply station; and a restaurant.
Activities
- Flight school EPAG NG
- Aero engine France (AEF)
- Aeroclub of Lys and Artois
- Gliding Club of Flanders Artois (CVVFA)
- Aerosports (aerobatics)
- Flying Club Wings of Paradise
- Circle Air Lestrem
- Circle Air Mermoz
References
- 1 2 LFQT – MERVILLE CALONNE. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 17 August 2017.
- ↑ (in French) Aéroport de Merville - Calonne (HZB / LFQT) 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.
- Airport information for LFQT at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.