Florimont, FR 🇫🇷 Closed Airport
FR-0497
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1279 ft
FR-BFC
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Location: 47.551216° N, 7.057021° E
Continent: EU
Type: Closed Airport
Keywords: LF9021 Base ULM de La Grosse Ferme Florimont
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Approximately 2021-2022. The airfield was officially delisted from French ULM (ultralight) platform databases during this period, indicating its formal closure.
The closure was most likely due to administrative or regulatory reasons. Stricter regulations for private airfields in France may have made continued operation unfeasible, or it could have been a personal decision by the private owner to cease aviation activities. There is no evidence to suggest the closure was caused by a specific accident, economic failure of a club, or conversion for military or commercial use.
The site has fully reverted to its primary function as agricultural land, belonging to the adjacent farm, 'La Grosse Ferme'. Satellite imagery shows the area of the former runway is now used for farming (cultivation or pasture) and is indistinguishable from the surrounding fields. The farm itself remains active, but all aviation infrastructure is gone.
La Grosse Ferme Florimont was a private ultralight (ULM) airfield. Its significance was entirely local, serving as a recreational base for the owner and potentially other pilots with permission. It consisted of a single grass runway, approximately 450 meters (1,475 feet) long, situated on active farmland. Operations were limited to private ultralight aircraft, such as fixed-wing ultralights, trikes (pendulaires), and gyrocopters. It was a characteristic example of the many small, private airfields that support general and recreational aviation in rural France.
There are no known plans or public prospects for the airfield to reopen. As a private airstrip on private land, any potential reopening would depend entirely on the landowner's initiative to re-apply for authorization under current, and potentially more stringent, French aviation regulations. The likelihood of this is considered extremely low.
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