- Tours Loire Valley Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Tours Loire Valley Airport
(Tours Val de Loire Airport)
nativename = Aéroport Tours Val de Loire
IATA = TUF
ICAO = LFOT
type = Public / Military
owner =
operator =French Air Force
city-served =Tours ,France
location =
elevation-f = 357
elevation-m = 109
coordinates = coord|47|25|56|N|00|43|39|E|type:airport|display=inline
website = [http://www.tours.aeroport.fr/index_en.php www.tours.aeroport.fr]
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 02/20
r1-length-f = 7,887
r1-length-m = 2,404
r1-surface =Concrete
footnotes = Source: French AIPAIP_FR|LFOT|name=TOURS VAL DE LOIRE]Tours Loire Valley Airport or Tours Val de Loire Airport ( _fr. Aéroport Tours Val de Loire) airport codes|TUF|LFOT is an
airport in the French "département" ofIndre-et-Loire , 6 km north-northeast of the city ofTours in theLoire Valley ( _fr. Val de Loire). It is located partly on the territory of the communes of Tours andParçay-Meslay .The airport dates back to the 1930s, and was first used as a military base. It was used during the
Second World War -Winston Churchill disembarked here the day before the armistice, before it was destroyed by Germanbombing s then by British bombings. It was used byNATO and theUS Air Force before becoming aflying school in the 1950s. It was only open to civilian aircraft from the early 1960s. During the end of the 1970s the airport enjoyed a golden period due to the local airlineTouraine Air Transport (TAT), but that airline suffered a slow slump, from which the airport never really recovered until the late 1990s, aftersubvention s by theConseil Général .Today, the airport is open to both national and international carriers, private planes and both
IFR andVFR . Due to its limited security measures, the airport is not open to larger carriers.The airport has daily
Boeing 737 flights toLondon Stansted withRyanair , and non-regular flights toLyon andBastia . The airport is home to around 40 Alpha Jets belonging to the air force , as well as a couple ofMirage fighter planes as part of theVigipirate defence plan.Airlines and destinations
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Ryanair (London-Stansted)References
External links
* [http://www.toursairport.com Tours Airport] en icon
* [http://www.tours.aeroport.fr/index_en.php Tours Val de Loire Airport] (official site) en icon
* [http://www.aeroport.fr/les-aeroports-de-l-uaf/tours-val-de-loire.php Aéroport de Tours - Val-de-Loire] (Union des Aéroports Français) fr icon
*WikiMapia|47.4322|0.7276|13
*WAD|LFOT
*ASN|TUF|Tours-St Symphorien Airport (TUF/LFOT)
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