Chateauroux Spotting, France
Posted by admin | Posted in Airport Spotting Guide, France, Western Europe | Posted on 29-08-2008
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Chateuroux is a small airport in France, an hour or so south of Paris. It has very little flight activity, with just a regional link to the capital of note.
However, the airport has become synonymous with airliner storage and nearly always has a few widebodies put out to pasture, ready for scrapping or eventual return to service.
The reason I mention Chateauroux now is that I just saw a log of what is currently stored there and was quite surprised! The log includes:
VP-BIB 747-200F Air Bridge Cargo
I-OCEU 747-200F Ocean Airlines
EC-JFR 747-200 Air Pullmantur
SX-FIN 747-200 Sky Express
F-GTOM 747SP Corsair
F-BTDE DC-10-30 AOM/Cubana
A nice bunch if you need them! Most aircraft can be seen quite easily by driving around the airfield and terminal area. Some photographs are possible.
I would be interested if anyone can tell me what aircraft were present at approx 1000 (local) 3 July 2011 and approx 1300 local on 9 July 2011.
Thanks
John