Toulouse-Montaudran Airport was a
French airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...
located in the district of
Montaudran in the municipality of
Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
in the
Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne (; , ; ''Upper Garonne'') is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's fourth-largest. ...
department of the region of
Occitanie.
History
Created in 1917 by
Pierre-Georges Latécoère, it became a centre for
civil aviation
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and the
aeronautics industry. In 1918 "Lignes Aériennes Latécoère" was created, and in 1927 it became the departure point for
Aéropostale with pilots based at the airport including
Jean Mermoz,
Henri Guillaumet,
Paul Vachet and
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (, , ), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born in Lyon to an French nobility, aristocratic ...
.
, successor to Aéropostale, until the 1970s
Breguet, used the airport for repairs to their aircraft. Eventually,
Air France Industries used the site for maintenance of their aircraft until 18 December 2003,
the date the last flight left the airport.
See also
*
Toulouse Aerospace
*
List of airports in France
*
Directorate General for Civil Aviation (France)
The Directorate General for Civil Aviation (, DGAC) is the French civil aviation authority. Its headquarters are in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, 50 Henry-Farman. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and E ...
References
Further reading
* Gérard Rey, ''Toulouse-Montaudran, de Latécoère à Air France'', Toulouse, Loubatières, 2003
*
Georges Baccrabère, ''Toulouse terre d'envol'', Toulouse, Privat, 1966 /Toulouse, Signes du monde, 1993 (2 vol.)
* Raymond Danel, ''Les lignes Latécoère (1918–1927)'', Toulouse, Privat, 1986
* Raymond Danel, ''L'Aéropostale (1927–1933)'', Toulouse, Privat, 1989
External links
Site of Toulouse - MontaudranHistoric planes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aéroport Toulouse - Montaudran
Defunct airports in France
Toulouse - Montaudran
Airports established in 1917
Airports disestablished in 2003
Buildings and structures in Haute-Garonne