Barcelonnette – Saint-Pons Airport is an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

located at Saint-Pons, west of

Barcelonnette Barcelonnette (; oc, Barciloneta de Provença, also ; obsolete it, Barcellonetta) is a commune of France and a subprefecture in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is located in the southern ...

, both ''communes'' in the

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or sometimes abbreviated as AHP (; oc, Aups d'Auta Provença; ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the south, Vaucluse to the west ...

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of the

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; or , ; commonly shortened to PACA; en, Provence-Alps-French Riviera, italic=yes; also branded as Région Sud) is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, the far southeastern on the mainland. Its pref ...

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. The airport is situated along the north side of the

Ubaye The Ubaye (; oc, Ubaia) is a river of southeastern France. It is long and flows through the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department. Its drainage basin is .visual flight rules In aviation, visual flight rules (VFR) are a set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going. Specifically, the weather must be better ...

. Civil and military aircraft may refuel with avgas 100LL and TRO. There are no customs, nor police, but an SSLIA (french: Service de sauvetage et de lutte contre l'incendie des aéronefs sur les aérodromes, "Airport and Aircraft Fire and Rescue Service") is provided at Level 1.

Air traffic control

There is no air traffic control tower; traffic is controlled by automated information provision on 123.500 MHz. Barcelonnette is a small airport dependent on the ''Provence'' aeronautical district; it uses no services of the

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. For aeronautical information, and preparation and deposition of flight plans, it is annexed to the (BRIA, "Regional Aeronautical Information Office") of Marseille Provence Airport. To follow the visual flight plans and for

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the airport is dependent on telecommunications and flight information from the french: Centre en route de la navigation aérienne Sud-Est ("South-East Air Traffic Control Centre") at

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

Clubs

The airport is home to the Barcelonnette Glider Club (l'Ubaye Glider Club).

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* * Aerial view Airports in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Alpes-de-Haute-Provence {{France-airport-stub