Pau Pyrénées Airport
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The Pau-Pyrenees airport lies in the municipality Uzien in the French department of Pyrénées- Atlantiques. Support to the airport is the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Pau. The airport is open around the clock. On 10,000 m² year can be handled up to 1,000,000 passengers. In addition, the French Army Aviation légère de l' armée de Terre to use the airport as a military airfield.
History
The origins of today's airport dating to 1909, the Wright Brothers and Louis Blériot flew from here later. Since then, the grounds were used continuously aeronautically until today militarily, first by the Air Force. The last aérienne of the Armée de l'air as base 119 Pau designated facility was handed over to the early 1970s to the Army. This use of the airfield continued as least the Air Force as a helicopter base.
A first terminal building for civil joint use was in 1948 and about the same time, the first paved airstrip was built. Today's civilian area was built in 1984, in 2002 he was a new 1 million passengers per year extended comprehensive terminal.
Technology at the airport
It is an ILS CAT III and HI / LI available. At the airport, Jet A1, AVGAS can be refueled.
Military use
The base currently houses (2013 ):
- 5e régiment d' hélicoptères de combat (5e RHC ) Combat Helicopter Regiment consisting of six flying squadrons and equipped with about 50 helicopters of types SA341/342 Gazelle, SA330 Puma, Cougar AS532 and EC665 Tiger ( since 2007), since 1977
- 4e régiment d' hélicoptères des forces PR Service (4e RHFS ), helicopter regiment for special units made up of one combat and transport squadron, helicopters are " borrowed" from other regiments consisting since 1997
The regiments use different helicopter types manufactured by Eurocopter. A squadron of the 4th Regiment is in Cazaux and two more are stationed at Villacoublay.
Civil use
The airport is served by Twin Jet, Ryanair, Air France and Transavia. Scheduled destinations are Marseille, London, Paris, Brussels, Bristol, Lyon and Amsterdam.
External links and sources
- The airport's website
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- Visual approach information
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- Homepage of the 4th Helicopter Regiment
- Homepage of the 5th Helicopter Regiment
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