Castres-Mazamet Airport
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Castres – Mazamet Airport is an airport
serving Castres
and Mazamet
and the east of Midi-Pyrénées
. The airport is located 7 km (4 mi) southeast of Castres and northwest of Mazamet
, near the commune
of Labruguière
, in the Tarn department.
of 785 feet (239 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway
designated 14/32 which measures 1825 by 30 m (5,987.5 by 98.4 ).
The airport is VFR
and IFR compliant.
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
serving Castres
Castres
Castres is a commune, and arrondissement capital in the Tarn department and Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It lies in the former French province of Languedoc....
and Mazamet
Mazamet
Mazamet is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.It is the second-largest component of the Castres-Mazamet metropolitan area.-Geography:...
and the east of Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées is the largest region of metropolitan France by area, larger than the Netherlands or Denmark.Midi-Pyrénées has no historical or geographical unity...
. The airport is located 7 km (4 mi) southeast of Castres and northwest of Mazamet
Mazamet
Mazamet is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.It is the second-largest component of the Castres-Mazamet metropolitan area.-Geography:...
, near the commune
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
of Labruguière
Labruguière
Labruguière is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.-Geography:The Thoré forms part of the commune's eastern border, flows north-northwestward through the northern part of the commune, crosses the village, then forms part of its northern border.-References:*...
, in the Tarn department.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 785 feet (239 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 14/32 which measures 1825 by 30 m (5,987.5 by 98.4 ).
The airport is VFR
Visual flight rules
Visual flight rules are a set of regulations which allow a pilot to operate an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going. Specifically, the weather must be better than basic VFR weather minimums, as specified in the rules of the...
and IFR compliant.