Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome
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Pontoise - Cormeilles Aerodrome Aérodrome de Pontoise - Cormeilles Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) A-59 |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Aeroports de Paris | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Pontoise | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Boissy l'Aillerie, France | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 325 ft / 99 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°05′48″N 002°02′27″E / 49.09667°N 2.04083°E | ||||||||||||||
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Pontoise Aerodrome or Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome (French: Aérodrome de Pontoise - Cormeilles) (IATA: POX, ICAO: LFPT) is an airport located 7 km (3.8 NM) northwest of Pontoise in Boissy l'Aillerie near Cormeilles-en-Vexin, all communes of the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region in northern France. The airport is also located 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Paris.
It supports mostly general aviation. Scheduled flights to Brighton (south of London) by Brighton City Airways ended on 6 May 2013
Built in 1937, the airfield was used by the French Army prior to the Second World War.
Seized by the Germans in June 1940 during the Battle of France, Cormeilles-en-Vexin was used as a Luftwaffe military airfield during the occupation. Known units assigned (all from Luftlotte 3, Fliegerkorps IV):
KG 76 participated in the Battle of Britain; KG 53 and KG 6 performed night bombing raids over England; KG 6 was a day interceptor unit against Eighth Air Force bombing raids; KG 66 flew raids over Allied shipping around England. The Luftwaffe also constructed two concrete, all weather runways, both of which are still in use today.
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