Le Bourget

Le Bourget is a community of 16,500 people (2016) in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. It is from the center of Paris. It's perhaps most famous because of Le Bourget Airport, once Paris's principal airport, now used only for general aviation; however, only a very small part of the aerodrome lies is actually in Le Bourget.

Understand
The airport started commercial operations in 1919 and was Paris's only airport until the construction of Orly in 1932. Le Bourget, London's Croydon (now demolished) and Berlin's Tempelhof (now a municipal park) were "the trio of Classic European airports" whose design influenced all others that came later. On May 8, 1927, the White Bird took off from Le Bourget and its pilots, Charles Nungesser and François Coli, hoped to reach New York City without stopovers. Unfortunately the plane disappeared without a trace. It was finally Charles Lindbergh who made the first air crossing of the North Atlantic between New York and Paris on May 21, 1927. He was welcomed as the "victor" of the North Atlantic, posing on his Spirit of St. Louis. An enormous crowd also welcomed Edouard Daladier on September 29, 1938, after the signing of the Munich Agreement signed between Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy represented respectively by Adolf Hitler, Edouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain and Benito Mussolini (who had acted as intermediary).

By train


Le Bourget is planned to one of the principal transportation hubs in the Paris North suburb: two train stations are planned in the long term as part of the Grand Paris Express project with the future lines 16 and 17.

By car
The town is served by two major highways (autoroutes): A1 autoroute in the north of the town, and A86 autoroute in the south of the city. Those two highways ensure a direct connection to major Paris Region hubs like La Defense (A86 West), Bobigny (A86 East), Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport (A1 North), Paris (A1 South).