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Moulins–Montbeugny 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 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2234469 ↗
Source-derived summary

Moulins–Montbeugny Airport (French: Aérodrome de Moulins–Montbeugny) (ICAO: LFHY) is an aerodrome or airport located in Toulon-sur-Allier, 7 km (4 NM) southeast of Moulins and west of Montbeugny, all communes in the Allier department of the Auvergne region in central France.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 915 feet (279 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 08/26 with an asphalt surface measuring 1,300 by 30 metres (4,265 ft × 98 ft). There are also two parallel grass runways measuring 843 by 80 metres (2,766 ft × 262 ft) and 330 by 30 metres (1,083 ft × 98 ft).

Airlines and destinations

There is no scheduled commercial air service at this time.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Moulins–Montbeugny Airport” as airport in France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Moulins, Montbeugny and Airport.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 116-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Moulins, Montbeugny and Airport providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2234469. Authority coordinates are 46.534, 3.422. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Moulins–Montbeugny 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.