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Limoges–Bellegarde Airport

airport in France

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ764655 ↗
Source-derived summary

Limoges–Bellegarde Airport (French: Aéroport de Limoges-Bellegarde, IATA: LIG, ICAO: LFBL) is an airport located 6 kilometres (4 mi) west-northwest of Limoges, a commune of the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The airport presently has limited mass transit options which include only three stops per day of bus line 26 and a shared taxi service to and from the main train station.

Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of 1,300 feet (396 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 03/21 which measures 2,440 by 45 metres (8,005 ft × 148 ft). It also has a parallel grass runway measuring 800 by 80 metres (2,625 ft × 262 ft).

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Limoges – Bellegarde Airport:

The nearest larger international airport is Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, located 240 km (150 mi) south west of Limoges–Bellegarde Airport.

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References

External links

Media related to Limoges-Bellegarde Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Limoges Airport (official site) (in English)

Aéroport de Limoges (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)

Aeronautical chart and airport information for LFBL at SkyVector

"Current weather for LFBL".

Editorial summary

“Limoges–Bellegarde Airport” enters the record as airport in France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Limoges, Bellegarde and Airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 190-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Limoges, Bellegarde and Airport.
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Why this record matters

“Limoges–Bellegarde Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Limoges, Bellegarde and Airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q764655. Authority coordinates are 45.861, 1.180. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Limoges–Bellegarde Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Limoges–Bellegarde Airport primary sources, Limoges–Bellegarde Airport archive and Limoges research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Limoges–Bellegarde Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.