Gonesse ( French pronunciation: [ɡɔnɛs] ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris , France. It is located 16.5 km (10.3 mi) from the centre of Paris .
16-470: The commune lies immediately north of Le Bourget Airport , and it is six kilometres (four miles) south-west of Charles de Gaulle International Airport . Since Carolingian times, cereals have been grown in Gonesse. In the period of the 12th through to the 16th centuries, the cultivation of grain was supplemented by drapery, in particular the production of the coarse woollen material of the gaunace . The commune
32-583: A statue commemorating Frenchwoman Raymonde de Laroche who was the first woman to earn a pilot's licence. There is also a monument honouring Lindbergh, as well as Nungesser and Coli , pilots of The White Bird . On 14 April 2016, the Groupe ADP rolled out the Connect 2020 corporate strategy and the commercial brand Paris Aéroport was applied to all Parisian airports, including Le Bourget airport. Le Bourget has been called "The Teterboro of Europe" because of
48-480: A transatlantic flight, but then mysteriously disappeared. Howard Hughes flew the second nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1939, landing at Le Bourget and thereafter continuing onward to Moscow . On 25 June 1940, Adolf Hitler began his first and only tour of Paris, with Albert Speer and an entourage, from Le Bourget Airport. Due to capacity constraints at Le Bourget, Air France transferred all of its operations to Orly in 1952. The Paris Air Show
64-429: A tyre blew out, caused by running over a strip of metal that had fallen off a DC-10 at nearby Charles de Gaulle International Airport . The crash led to the deaths of all 109 people on board and four more on the ground. The Concorde crash occurred fewer than 6 km from Goussainville , the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show . Among the places worthwhile to visit in
80-461: Is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris , France . It is located 12.4 km (7.7 mi) from the centre of Paris . About a third of Le Bourget airport lies on the territory of the commune of Dugny, including its main terminal and the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace (air and space museum). Nonetheless, the airport was named after the neighbouring commune of Le Bourget . Dugny
96-467: Is an airport located within portions of the communes of Le Bourget , Bonneuil-en-France , Dugny and Gonesse , 6 NM (11 km; 6.9 mi) north-northeast of Paris , France. Once Paris's principal airport, it is now used only for general aviation , including business jet operations. It also hosts air shows , most notably the Paris Air Show . The airport is operated by Groupe ADP under
112-547: Is served by no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Dugny is Le Bourget station on Paris RER line B . This station is located in the neighbouring commune of Le Bourget , 2.8 km (1.7 mi) from the town centre of Dugny. Le Bourget Airport and Charles de Gaulle International Airport is located near Dugny. Schools in Dugny: The Médiathèque Anne Frank
128-535: The brand Paris Aéroport . The airport started commercial operations in 1919 and was Paris's only airport until the construction of Orly Airport in 1932. It is famous as the landing site for Charles Lindbergh 's historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927 in the Spirit of St. Louis , and had been the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird) , which took off in an attempt at
144-619: The commune had 20 municipal primary schools with a total of 3,526 ;pupils, including 11 pre-schools ( écoles maternelles ) with a total of 1,389 pupils (in addition to 20 children in toute petite programmes) and nine elementary schools with 2,137 total pupils. Junior high schools: There is one senior high school, Lycée René Cassin-Gonesse . Gonesse has been twinned with the town of Leonessa in Rieti , Italy, since 1981. Le Bourget Airport Paris–Le Bourget Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget ) ( IATA : LBG , ICAO : LFPB )
160-555: The property Frapart (the Castle ) is used as the main establishment of the urban administration. Jean Camus, Louis Furmanek, Pierre Lorgnet, and Albert Drouhot from Gonesse belonged to the French Resistance movement during the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 —a Concorde supersonic transport —crashed onto a hotel in the town after
176-576: The reportedly terrified local peasants destroyed it with pitchforks . This caused the government to issue a statement on the harmlessness and the scientific value of such experiments. In 1815, Marshal Grouchy arrived in Gonesse in the course of the War of the Sixth Coalition , with 40,000 troops and 120 artillery pieces. On 2 July, the Duke of Wellington made his headquarters at the commune. Since June 1939,
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#1732847553300192-620: The role it plays in accepting all the business aviation flying into Paris, and the support base. The Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA) is headquartered in Building 153 on the grounds of Le Bourget Airport and in Le Bourget . Le Bourget Airport hosts the Musée de l’air et de l’espace , which is also located in the commune of Le Bourget. Dugny Dugny ( French pronunciation: [dyɲi] )
208-731: The town are the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the old Hotel-Dieu, the Hotel-Dieu, the lofts Garlande and Orgemont, and the estates of Malmaison and of Coulanges. Gonesse is served neither by the Paris Métro, RER, nor the suburban rail network. The closest station is the Villiers-le-Bel–Gonesse–Arnouville station on the Paris RER D . This station is located in the neighbouring commune of Arnouville-lès-Gonesse , 2.6 km (1.6 mi) from Gonesse town centre. As of 2015,
224-621: Was an important producer of wheat for the Parisian market in modern times, until the decline of its bakery trade at the end of the 18th century helped feed a strong migration to the capital. The world's first hydrogen filled balloon —the unmanned balloon launched by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers from the Champ de Mars in Paris on 27 August 1783—flew for 45 minutes and landed in Gonesse, where
240-456: Was closed to international airline traffic and in 1980 to regional airline traffic, but continues serving both domestic and international business aviation. Since 1975, Le Bourget Airport has hosted the Musée de l’air et de l’espace , France's main state-owned aviation museum. Following the discontinuation of regular commercial traffic in 1977, space available to house museum collections and displays has progressively increased. The airport hosts
256-626: Was first held at Le Bourget in 1953, having previously been held at the Grand Palais prior to World War II, and at Orly after the war. The first jet-powered transcontinental flight, which was a Boeing 707 operated by Pan Am , occurred from Idlewild Airport , New York, to Le Bourget, on October 26, 1958, with a fuel stop in Gander, Newfoundland . On 16 June 1961, the Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget Airport. In 1977, Le Bourget
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