Colmar Airport

Colmar - Houssen Airport

Aéroport de Colmar - Houssen
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesColmar, France
LocationHoussen
Elevation AMSL627 ft / 191 m
Coordinates48°06′37″N 007°21′33″E / 48.11028°N 7.35917°E / 48.11028; 7.35917
Map
LFGA is located in France
LFGA
LFGA
Location of airport in France
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 1,610 5,282 Paved
01L/19R 950 3,117 Grass
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

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

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

Annual passenger traffic at CMR airport. See Wikidata query.

References

  1. ^ a b LFGA – COLMAR HOUSSEN. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 7 August 2025.
  2. ^ (in French) Aéroport de Colmar - Houssen (CMR / LFGA) Archived 2012-09-11 at the Wayback Machine at Union des Aéroports Français
  3. ^ "Access to the airport Archived 2011-03-01 at the Wayback Machine." (Map) Colmar Airport. Retrieved on July 7, 2010.
  4. ^ "Bugatti Hits 186 MPH in Every Customer's W16 Mistral and Drives Them at Least 250 Miles Before Delivery". 25 July 2025.