Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault" Airport

Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault" Airport (French: Aéroport de Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault", IATA: CHR, ICAO: LFLX), formerly known as Châteauroux-Déols "Marcel Dassault" Airport, is an airport serving the French city of Châteauroux.[1] The airport is located 5.5 km (3.0 NM) 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.

Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault" Airport

Aéroport de Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault"
Summary
Airport typePublic, cargo and industrial
OperatorAéroport Châteauroux-Centre
ServesChâteauroux
LocationDéols, Indre, France
Elevation AMSL529 ft / 161 m
Coordinates46°51′37″N 001°43′16″E
Websitechateauroux-airport.com
Maps
Location of Centre region in France
Location of Centre region in France
LFLX is located in Centre-Val de Loire
LFLX
LFLX
Location in Centre-Val de Loire region
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
03/21 3,500 11,483 Concrete
Source: French AIP,[1] UAF,[2] Airport[3]

Facilities

Châteauroux-Centre Airport resides at an elevation of 529 feet (161 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 03/21 which measures 3,500 by 45 metres (11,483 ft × 148 ft).[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.[4]

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.[5]

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"[6] 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. [7]

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 2023:

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 2023 around ten "charter" flights during the spring-summer season, such as Portugal, Canary Islands, Croatia and Montenegro, Malta, Jordan or Greece.[13]

Cargo

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

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at CHR airport. See Wikidata query.

Access

The A20 passes close to the airport.

The airport is served by bus number 6 from the centre of Chateauroux.[14]

References
  1. LFLX – CHÂTEAUROUX DÉOLS. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 5 October 2023.
  2. (in French) Aéroport de Châteauroux – Centre (CHR / LFLX) Archived 27 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine at L'Union des Aéroports Français
  3. (in French) Aéroport de Châteauroux-Centre "Marcel Dassault", official site
  4. "L'aéroport de Châteauroux porté par les vents contraires de la Covid" (in French). 27 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021..
  5. "Déols : la riche histoire commune du Concorde et de l'aéroport Marcel-Dassault" (in French). 14 March 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2019..
  6. "VIDEO - Le plus gros avion du monde, passé par l'aéroport de Châteauroux, détruit par l'armée russe" (in French). 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022..
  7. "L'aéroport de Châteauroux se prépare pour le ravitaillement de bombardiers d'eau" (in French). 16 August 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020..
  8. "Châteauroux : à l'aéroport, "les profils qualifiés sont plus difficiles à recruter"" (in French). Retrieved 22 April 2022..
  9. "À Châteauroux, Dale aviation attend que le brouillard se lève sur l'aviation" (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2020..
  10. "Aéroport de Châteauroux : le site de peinture d'avion est "unique en Europe" selon le repreneur Satys" (in French). Retrieved 5 November 2019..
  11. "L'aéroport de Châteauroux-Déols inaugure un nouveau immense hangar" (in French). July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022..
  12. Nouvelle, L'Usine (19 June 2015). "Le casse-tête du recyclage des avions" (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2015..
  13. "Ténérife, Corfou, la Crète, la Sardaigne... L'agence Destinations lance des charters à partir de Châteauroux" (in French). Retrieved 4 September 2021..
  14. "Home". bus-horizon.com.
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