Colmar Airport
Colmar - Houssen Airport Aéroport de Colmar - Houssen | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Colmar, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Houssen | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 627 ft (191 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°06′37″N 007°21′33″E / 48.11028°N 7.35917°E | ||||||||||||||
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  LFGA Location of airport in France | |||||||||||||||
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| Sources: French AIP,[1] UAF[2] | |||||||||||||||
Colmar - Houssen Airport (French: Aéroport de Colmar - Houssen) (IATA: CMR, ICAO: LFGA) is an airport in Houssen, 1 km (1 mile) north of Colmar,[1] both communes in the Haut-Rhin department of the Alsace region in France. The airport is along Autoroute A35 and is served by the Colmar Station.[3]
Facilities
[edit]The airport resides at an elevation of 627 feet (191 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 01/19 which measures 1,610 by 30 metres (5,282 ft × 98 ft) and a parallel grass runway measuring 950 by 80 metres (3,117 ft × 262 ft).
Bugatti Automobile Testing
[edit]Colmar Airport is used by the automobile company Bugatti to test all of their new W16 Mistral production cars, accelerating them to 186 miles per hour (299 km/h). [4]
Statistics
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 LFGA – COLMAR HOUSSEN. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 9 July 2026.
- ↑ (in French) Aéroport de Colmar - Houssen (CMR / LFGA) Archived 2012-09-11 at the Wayback Machine at Union des Aéroports Français
- ↑ "Access to the airport Archived 2011-03-01 at the Wayback Machine." (Map) Colmar Airport. Retrieved on July 7, 2010.
- ↑ "Bugatti Hits 186 MPH in Every Customer's W16 Mistral and Drives Them at Least 250 Miles Before Delivery". 25 July 2025.
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