Chartres – Champhol Aerodrome
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Chartres – Champhol Aerodrome (French: Aérodrome de Chartres -
Champhol) (ICAO: LFOR) is an airport serving Chartres and Champhol,
in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France. The
airport is located 2.5 km (1.3 NM) east-northeast of Chartres and
it is southeast of Champhol. It supports general aviation with no
commercial airline service scheduled.
The field was replaced by a totally new civilian facility which is
much smaller than the prewar airport. It has an asphalt main
runway and a secondary turf runway for small aircraft and glider
use. The runway and ground support buildings are on the south side
of the former airport and wartime runway. In addition, an
industrial park was built on part of the former airport.
The airport resides at an elevation of 509 ft (155 m) above mean
sea level. It has a paved runway designated 10/28 which measures
2,756 ft × 82 ft (840 x 25 m). It also has a parallel unpaved
runway with a grass surface measuring 2,953 ft × 328 ft (900 by
100 m).
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