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Le Touquet – Côte d'Opale Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
21 ft / 6 m

14/32
  
1,850

Elevation
  
36 m

Serves
  
Le Touquet, France

Website
  
aeroport-letouquet.com

Code
  
LTQ

Phone
  
+33 3 21 05 03 99

Le Touquet – Côte d'Opale Airport

Operator
  
Société d'economie mixte de l'aéroport du Touquet (SEMAT)

Address
  
Allée de la Royale air Force, 62520 Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France

Similar
  
Hotel Novotel Thalassa, Résidence Pierre et Vacances, Holiday Inn Resort Le Touquet, Point d'informat touristique, Hotel Residence Hippotel

Le Touquet - Côte d'Opale Airport (French: Aéroport de Le Touquet - Côte d'Opale) (IATA: LTQ, ICAO: LFAT) is 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) east-southeast of Le Touquet, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. It is on Côte d'Opale, the northern coast of France

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The passenger terminal is open from 09:00-20:00 hours. Only LyddAir operates a scheduled service, to Lydd. Private jet services are provided to Le Touquet by private Jet Le Touquet .There are three flying clubs and most of them also give flying lessons; two of them are helicopter schools and clubs.

Flight school and clubs

  • Pig Club is a helicopter piloting school.
  • Le Touquet Opal Coast Flying Club is a helicopter school and club, owned by leading English school heli flight.
  • Aéro Delahaye - Ecole de pilotage ULM is another flying club with a base here.

    • Accidents and incidents

  • On 2 May 1981, Aer Lingus Flight 164, a Boeing 737-200 carry 108 passengers and crew was hijacked on a flight from Dublin Airport in Ireland to London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom. The hijacker had the pilots fly the plane to Le Touquet where it then stood for nearly 10 hours before French armed forces stormed the plane and apprehended the suspect. No one was killed or injured.

    • Trivia

  • Le Touquet airport is featured in the Microsoft Flight Simulator X mission Flying Blind Across the Channel, in which the player flies a Cessna 172 from Manston Airport in Kent, UK on a foggy day using IFR.

    • References

    Le Touquet – Côte d'Opale Airport Wikipedia
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