:: ''For the military use of this facility, see: Maupertus-sur-Mer Airfield'' Cherbourg – Maupertus Airport or ''Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus'' is an airport located 11 km east of

Cherbourg-en-Cotentin Cherbourg-en-Cotentin () is a city in the department of Manche, Normandy, northwestern France, established on 1 January 2016.

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and Gonneville. These are all ''

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'' of the

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'' in the

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'' of

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. The airport is managed by SNC-Lavalin Airports (subsidiary of the large Canadian engineering firm

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) since 1 October 2009. It has one runway, Runway 10/28. It is 2440 metres long and is covered in asphalt. There are six bays, numbered N1 to N6. There are currently no scheduled flights operating to or from the airport. Until early 2008 there was one scheduled flight a day from

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via Cherbourg although this has now been withdrawn. Charter flights occasionally operate to and from the airport.

Airlines and destinations

No destinations served at present, as

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dropped services to

and

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followed by Chalair and also

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(who had taken over the service to Paris), which both failed to make links to Paris profitable.

Statistics

History

The airport was first built in 1937 as a French Air Force military airfield. It was captured and used by the German Luftwaffe during the Occupation of France, and seized by the United States Army on 27 June 1944 during the liberation of the Cherbourg area. It was used as a fighter and bomber airfield by the United States Army Air Forces in 1944. After the Americans moved east into Central France with the advancing Allied Armies, the airfield was used as a resupply and casualty evacuation airfield for several months, before being closed on 22 December 1944. It was then turned over to French authorities.

75th D-Day Commemorations

June 2019 saw the airport being used for the temporary basing of C-47 Skytrain/Dakota, DC-3, USAF MC-130J & C-130's for the 75th D-Day Commemorative air drops.

References

External links

Advanced Landing Ground A-15 Memorial

''Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus''

''Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus''
(''Union des Aéroports Français'')

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