LFRC
Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport
MVFR
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Name
Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
LFRC / CER / LFRC
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
2:00 pm (CET)
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Municipality
Cherbourg/Maupertus
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Coordinates
49° 39′ 0″ N 1° 28′ 13″ E
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Elevation
459 ft (140 m MSL)
About Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport
Cherbourg – Maupertus Airport or Aéroport de Cherbourg - Maupertus (IATA: CER, ICAO: LFRC) is an airport located 11 km east of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, between Maupertus-sur-Mer and Gonneville. These are all communes of the Manche département in the Normandy région of France. The airport is managed by SNC-Lavalin Airports (subsidiary of the large Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin) since 1 October 2009.
It has one runway, Runway 10/28. It is 2440 metres long and is covered in asphalt. There are six bays, numbered N1 to N6. There are currently no scheduled flights operating to or from the airport. Until early 2008 there was one scheduled flight a day from Paris to Jersey via Cherbourg although this has now been withdrawn.
Charter flights occasionally operate to and from the airport.