# Charleville-Mézières Ardennes-Etienne Riché Airfield

> Charleville-Mézières, FR · ICAO: LFQV · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| ICAO | `LFQV` |
| City | Charleville-Mézières |
| Country | FR |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 150 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 49.78390, 4.64708 |

## Description

The Conseil départemental des Ardennes has owned and directly run the Aérodrome des Ardennes – Etienne Riché (ICAO: LFQV) since 2008, operating a single 1,500-metre hard runway with no commercial scheduled or freight service. The field lies about 6 km north-west of Charleville-Mézières across the communes of Damouzy, Tournes and Belval, in the Grand Est region close to the Belgian border. Opened in 1968 with 800 metres of pavement, the runway was stretched to 1,200 metres in 1977 and to its present length in 1995. Users are business and leisure flyers, the Ailes Ardennaises aero club, microlight and skydiving groups and aerial work operators, plus medical flights arranged with the local hospital. No customs office sits on the field and no IATA code is assigned for air waybill purposes, so import and export formalities are completed by forwarders at whichever cargo airport is used. Paris-Vatry (XCR), a freight-focused airport roughly 150 road kilometres away, and Liège (LGG) at about 196 km are the closest cargo options, while Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) offers the widest network. The A34 motorway between Reims and Sedan serves an Ardennes economy built on foundries and metalworking and continues beyond Sedan as the dual-carriageway N58 toward Belgium, so pre-carriage runs entirely by truck.

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