Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Perpignan – Rivesaltes) , also known as Llabanère Airport, as well as Aéroport de Perpignan - Sud de France, is a small
international airport near
Perpignan and
Rivesaltes
Rivesaltes (; ca, Ribesaltes, which means the ''high shores'') is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Geography
Rivesaltes is in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.
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, both ''
communes
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'' of the
Pyrénées-Orientales Department in the
Occitanie Occitanie may refer to:
*Occitania, a region in southern France called ''Occitanie'' in French
*Occitania (administrative region)
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region of south France.
Facilities
The airport is above
mean sea level
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asphalt
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runway
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s: 15/33 is and 13/31 is .
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport:
Statistics
Incidents and accidents
*On 27 November 2008,
Flight 888T, an
Airbus A320
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The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France.
The first member of the famil ...
(owned by
Air New Zealand
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) operating for
XL Airways Germany, crashed whilst on a test flight from Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport. The aircraft stalled and crashed into the
Mediterranean Sea
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, killing all seven on board. The aircraft was due to be returned to its original owner.
*On 25 July 2019, after rehearsing for a show, one of the France Air Force (Patrouille de France) planes crashed while landing. The pilot was able to escape. Some damage was caused to the fence on the northern side of the airport.
Presidential airplanes
The airport serves as a maintenance facility for several presidential airplanes, including 5A-ONE, an
Airbus A340
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In the mid-1970s, Airbus conceived several derivatives of the A300, its first airliner, and developed the A340 quadjet in parallel wit ...
that flew
Libya
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's
Moammar Gadhafi, as well as
Boeing 727
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After the heavy 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airpo ...
s of
Benin
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and
Mauritania and an Airbus A340 that flies French President
Emmanuel Macron.
References
External links
Aéroport de Perpignan-Rivesaltes
Aéroport de Perpignan-Rivesaltes(Union des Aéroports Français)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Perpignan-Rivesaltes Airport
Airports in Occitania (administrative region)
Airport
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Airports established in 1910