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Toussus-le-Noble Airport, renamed Paris-Saclay-Versailles Airport in 2024, is a long-established general aviation field to the south-west of Paris in the Yvelines department. It has no scheduled airline traffic but is one of the busiest general aviation aerodromes in France, hosting French governmental aircraft alongside private and training flights, and it retains two parallel hard runways with an ILS to serve visiting pilots.
Toussus-le-Noble, now formally styled Paris-Saclay-Versailles Airport, is a general aviation aerodrome in the town of Toussus-le-Noble in the Yvelines department of Ile-de-France. It carries no scheduled airline service but is one of the most active general aviation airfields in France, and it is notable as a base for French governmental aircraft, which are hangared and maintained on site. For a simulator pilot it offers an interesting mix of long aviation history and a busy, mixed general aviation traffic pattern close to Paris.
The airfield lies at Toussus-le-Noble in the Yvelines department of Ile-de-France, to the south-west of central Paris. Field elevation is 518 feet, at coordinates 48.7497 N, 2.1111 E.
The airfield has two parallel hard-surfaced runways. Runway 07L/25R is 3,605 feet long, lit, and equipped with an ILS on the 25R approach. Runway 07R/25L is 3,425 feet long and lit. Both runways are hard-surfaced.
Toussus-le-Noble provides ATIS on 127.475 MHz, Ground on 122.13 MHz and Tower on 120.75 MHz. The 25R approach is served by an ILS.
Toussus-le-Noble is one of the oldest airfields in France, established in 1907. It served the French Air Force during the First World War and again in the early part of the Second World War, before being seized by German forces in June 1940 during the Battle of France. Between December 1940 and March 1941 it was used by Sturzkampfgeschwader 77, a Luftwaffe dive-bomber wing flying Junkers Ju 87 Stukas and later Dornier Do 17 light bombers during the Battle of Britain period; after this unit departed the field remained an auxiliary dispersal airfield without permanently assigned units. Allied ground forces liberated the airfield around 28 August 1944 during the Northern France Campaign, after which the USAAF IX Engineering Command's 818th Engineer Aviation Battalion cleared it of mines and destroyed abandoned Luftwaffe aircraft, laying a temporary 4,000-foot square-mesh track runway aligned 07/25 over the existing turf strip. Around 30 August 1944 the field became a USAAF Ninth Air Force combat airfield designated Advanced Landing Ground A-46, home to the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group flying photo-reconnaissance sorties until the end of September 1944, after which it served as a resupply, casualty evacuation and liaison airfield supporting Allied headquarters in Paris. On 2 January 1945 Admiral Bertram Ramsay was killed when his aircraft crashed on takeoff from Toussus-le-Noble while en route to a conference with Field Marshal Montgomery in Brussels. Full control was returned to French authorities on 8 August 1945, after which the temporary wartime runway was made permanent and resurfaced as 07R/25L, and a second runway, 07L/25R, was later constructed along with expanded ground facilities. In February 2024 the French Transport Ministry published notification of the airfield's renaming from Toussus-le-Noble to Paris-Saclay-Versailles.
Today the airfield supports general aviation with no scheduled commercial airline service, and is one of the busiest general aviation aerodromes in France. It hosts a control tower, a fuel provider, a terminal building and around forty hangars across a site of some 166 hectares. French governmental aircraft are stored and maintained here, alongside private and general aviation traffic.