Lorient South Brittany Airport
Airport in the Brittany region of France
Lorient South Brittany Airport
(Lann Bihoué)
Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud
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Airport type | Joint mil-civ airfield | ||||||||||||
Operator | Morbihan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Fleet Air Arm | ||||||||||||
Serves | Lorient , France | ||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 160 ft / 49 m | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 47°45′38″N 03°26′24″W / 47.76056°N 3.44000°W / 47.76056; -3.44000 | ||||||||||||
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Lorient South Brittany Airport or Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud ( IATA : LRT , ICAO : LFRH ) , also known as Lorient-Lann-Bihoué Airport , is the airport serving the city of Lorient . It is situated 5 km west-northwest of Lorient, [1] a commune of the Morbihan département in the Brittany region of France .
Airlines and destinations
The following airline operates regular scheduled and charter flights at Lorient Airport:
Airlines | Destinations |
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APG Airlines | Toulouse [3] |
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Military use
The airport is comparatively large, 3 km by 3 km, which is due to its being built during the Second World War to support German submarine operations from the nearby base in Lorient .
It is also known as Lann Bihoue Naval Air Base (Base Aéronavale de Lann Bihoué) and is one of the French Naval Aviation bases, currently hosting:
- Flottille 4F with Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
- Flottille 21F with Atlantique 2
- Flottille 23F with Atlantique 2
- Flottille 24F with Falcon 50 M
- Flottille 28F with Embraer Xingu
These units also form the airwing which is assigned to the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle .
Accidents
- On July 30, 1998, Proteus Airlines Flight 706 collided with a Cessna after flying off-course on approach to the airport, leading to the deaths of the people on both planes.
References
- 1 2 LFRH – LORIENT LANN BIHOUÉ . AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique , effective 13 July 2023.
- ↑ Lorient South Brittany Airport (official site)
- ↑ "APG AIRLINES" . APG Inc . Retrieved 7 September 2018 .
External links
- Base Aeronavale Lann Bihoue
- Lorient South Brittany Airport (official site) (in English)
- Aéroport de Lorient-Bretagne Sud (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)
- Accident history for Lorient-Lann Bihoué Airport (LRT) at Aviation Safety Network
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