Tours Val de Loire Airport
Tours Val de Loire Airport
Tours Val de Loire Airport
(French: Aéroport Tours Val de Loire ) (IATA: TUF, ICAO: LFOT) is an airport in
the French department of Indre-et-Loire, 6 km (3.2 NM) north-northeast of the
city of Tours in the Loire Valley (Val
de Loire). The airport is located partly on the territory of the communes of
Tours and Parçay-Meslay.
The airport is open to both
national and international carriers, private planes and is certified for both
instrument flight and visual flight.
History
The airport dates back to World
War I, being established as a French Air Force (Armee de l'Air) training
center. The center trained many French aviators and some Americans who had
volunteered prior to the American entry in the war into the French flying
service. In the summer of 1917, the school was provided to the American
Expeditionary Forces, which designated the school as the Second Aviation
Instructional Center, Tours Aerodrome. Initially it was used as an advanced
training school for pursuit pilot combat training. Later it developed into a
center of training for all aerial observers of the Air Service, United States
Army assigned to the AEF. It also was used as a Radio School, a Photographic
school and an Aerial Gunnery school. After the 1918 Armistice with Germany, it
was returned to the French Air Force which used it as a military base.
After World War II the airport
was used by NATO and the US Air Force before becoming a flying school in the
1950s. From the early 1960s, Tours Airport was opened to the public. During the
end of the 1970s the airport enjoyed a golden period due to the local airline
Touraine Air Transport (TAT), but that airline suffered a slow slump, from
which the airport never really recovered until the late 1990s, when it received
subventions by the Conseil Général.
Facilities
The airport resides at an
elevation of 109 metres (358 ft) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway
designated 02/20 which measures 2,404 by 45 metres (7,887 ft × 148 ft). The
airport once housed the head office of TAT European Airlines. There is no
longer a shuttle service to the airport, it is not served by the Fil Bleu city
bus service, and the tramway stops around a kilometre away from it.
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