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Muret-Lherm is a light-aviation aerodrome south-west of Toulouse in the Haute-Garonne, home to several flying clubs and a training centre of the École nationale de l'aviation civile. With a hard runway, a parallel grass strip and a dedicated microlight field, it offers a varied and historic base for VFR visits in the Toulouse area.
Aérodrome de Muret-Lherm (LFBR) is a civil airfield dedicated to light aviation, business flying and sporting aviation, situated close to Muret in the Occitanie region of south-west France. It is run by the town of Muret and hosts a number of aero clubs alongside a training centre operated by the École nationale de l'aviation civile (ENAC), making it a busy and varied field for a visiting sim pilot to explore.
The aerodrome lies on the communes of Le Lherm and Muret, in the Haute-Garonne department, about 5 km south-west of the centre of Muret and within the wider Toulouse conurbation. Traffic in the area is worked by Toulouse approach control, and the field itself has its own control tower providing an aerodrome control service.
Muret-Lherm has three physical runways. The main runway, 12/30, is 3613 ft long, has a hard surface and is lit. Alongside it runs a second runway, 12R/30L, 2697 ft long with a grass surface. A shorter grass runway, 12L/30R, of 1009 ft, serves as the microlight (ULM) strip.
Pilots inbound to Muret-Lherm should expect to work Toulouse Approach on 125.175 MHz. The aerodrome broadcasts an ATIS on 124.58 MHz, with Muret Ground on 121.75 MHz and Muret Tower on 123.2 MHz providing aerodrome control. The field has no ILS.
The site was first delimited during the Second World War by German forces seeking a training ground. The aerodrome proper was created in the summer of 1955, following the founding of the Aéro Club Clément Ader on 17 March 1953, and remained a modest country airfield until 1970. That year, following the establishment of the École nationale de l'aviation civile in Toulouse, the Direction générale de l'aviation civile set up a flying school run by the Service de la Formation Aéronautique (SFA), which over time brought additional staff and equipment to the field; the runway was tarmacked the same year, and a control tower entered service in 1975. The SFA became the aerodrome's principal user and merged with ENAC in 2011. Several aero clubs and flying organisations have since been founded on the field, training pilots as their main activity. In 2025 the town of Muret announced plans to rename the aerodrome after the Muret-born aviation pioneer Clément Ader, but the change was not carried through after the mayor of Le Lherm, whose agreement was required, was not consulted.
Muret-Lherm today hosts a number of aero clubs, including the Aéro-club Clément-Ader, Aéro-club Jean-Mermoz, Aéro-club CALM, Aéro-club Léonard-de-Vinci, Aéro-club de l'ENAC and Aéro-club Jean-Marie-Bonnafé, alongside one of the training centres of ENAC. The field has a control tower and a fuel station, and includes a separate microlight (ULM) area with its own grass strip and hangars for club, private and commercial ULM operators. The aerodrome is well known for hosting Airexpo, an annual air show held each May since 1992 (except 2008), and it has previously staged the World Aerobatics Championship in 2000 and stages of the Tour de France ATL and Tour de France ULM in 2009 and 2016 respectively.