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Paris-Beauvais Airport (ICAO LFOB) lies at Tillé in the Hauts-de-France region, a short distance north of the city of Beauvais and some 69 km north-northwest of central Paris. It is a busy low-cost hub served by Ryanair, Wizz Air and other carriers, offering a sim pilot the chance to fly a full ILS approach into a genuinely commercial airport away from the Paris core.
Paris-Beauvais Airport, branded for its proximity to the French capital despite sitting well outside it, is a mid-sized international airport at Tillé near Beauvais. It has grown from a modest regional field into France's eighth busiest airport, handling several million passengers a year on predominantly low-cost European routes operated by carriers such as Ryanair, Wizz Air, Volotea and Dan Air. For the simulator pilot it offers a realistic mix of a long ILS-equipped main runway alongside a much shorter secondary strip, all within reach of the busier Paris terminal airspace.
The airport sits in the commune of Tillé, adjoining the town of Beauvais, in the Hauts-de-France region roughly 69 km north-northwest of Paris. Beauvais railway station lies about 4 km from the field. As a large airport handling scheduled airline traffic, it is served by approach and tower control; no further detail on airspace classification or surrounding controlled zones is given in the available sources.
Beauvais-Tillé has two physical runways. The main runway, 12/30, is a hard-surfaced, lit strip of roughly 7,952 ft on runway 30 and 7,808 ft on runway 12, equipped with ILS on both thresholds. A much shorter secondary runway, 04/22, is also hard-surfaced and lit, at 2,316 ft in each direction, without ILS.
The field is served by Beauvais Approach on 119.9 MHz, Beauvais ATIS on 118.375 MHz, and Beauvais Tower on 121.4 MHz. Runway 12/30 is equipped with an instrument landing system; according to the airport operator, threshold 12 is served by ILS Category III and threshold 30 by ILS Category I, allowing operations in low-visibility conditions on the main runway (source: aeroportparisbeauvais.com).
The airfield was built in the 1930s and was seized by German forces in June 1940 during the Battle of France, after which it served as a Luftwaffe military airfield for the remainder of the occupation. Civil use expanded significantly after the liberalisation of air transport within the European Union in 1997, when passenger numbers began a steady climb from around 78,000 to several million annually.
Paris-Beauvais is now France's eighth busiest airport, handling around 6.67 million passengers and close to 39,600 flights in 2025, up from 4,366 flights in 2001. It is operated by Bellova and serves more than 80 destinations across some 30 countries, principally through low-cost carriers Ryanair, Wizz Air, Volotea, Dan Air, Lauda and Hisky. The airport is designed for rapid turnarounds, with quoted stop times of around 25 minutes for A320 and 737-800 type aircraft and taxi times of up to five minutes, reflecting its compact 230-hectare site with twelve aircraft parking positions.