Merville – Calonne Airport

Merville – Calonne Airport is a regional airport in France. It is located 3 km south of Merville, in the Nord department of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France. The airport supports general aviation with no commercial airline service scheduled.

History
Originally built by Germans as a Luftwaffe airfield (Fliegerhorst Merville) as part of the defensed of the Pas de Calais area. Later converted by USAAF engineers into an allied airfield. The airport was used by the British Royal Air Force as Advanced Landing Ground B-53 Merville.

Airfield has numerous wartime relics, including many bunkers.

Runways
The airport has two runways oriented north-south (04/22):
 * A 1840 x paved runway featuring markup day and night, a precision approach path indicator (PAPI) for each landing direction, and an instrument landing system (ILS) associated with a distance measuring equipment (DME) for the landing direction 22.
 * A 1000 x grass runway.

Services
The airfield is controlled and has an Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS). Communication is the frequency of 127.900 MHz for the ATIS, 126.475 MHz or 120.275 MHz for the approach, 119.075 MHz for the tower and 121.675 MHz for the ground. It is approved for night visual flight rules (VFR) and instrument flight rules (IFR).

Addition services include: a 9540 m² parking area, a 195 m² terminal, a fuel (100LL and Jet A-1) and lubricant supply station; and a restaurant.

Activities

 * Flight school Amaury de la Grange (EPAG)
 * Aero engine France (AEF)
 * Aeroclub of Lys and Artois
 * Gliding Club of Flanders Artois (CVVFA)
 * Aerosports (aerobatics)
 * Flying Club Wings of Paradise
 * Circle Air Lestrem
 * Circle Air Mermoz