Persan-Beaumont Airport

Persan-Beaumont Airport Aérodrome de Persan - Beaumont (former Advanced Landing Ground A-60)
A-26C-2-DL Invader 41-39199 553rd BS, 386th BG, 9th AF Beaumont-sur-Oise Airfield (A-60), France, 2 December 1944
IATA: none ICAO: LFPA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aéroports de Paris
Serves	Persan / Beaumont, France
Elevation AMSL	149 ft / 45 m
Coordinates	49°09′54″N 002°18′42″E / 49.16500°N 2.31167°E / 49.16500; 2.31167Coordinates: 49°09′54″N 002°18′42″E / 49.16500°N 2.31167°E / 49.16500; 2.31167
Map
LFPA Location of Persan-Beaumont Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10L/28R 830 2,723 Asphalt 10R/28L 880 2,887 Grass 05/23 975 3,199 Grass
Source: AIP France

Persan-Beaumont Airport (French: Aérodrome de Persan - Beaumont, ICAO: LFPA) is a regional airport in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located 3 kilometres (2 mi) northeast of Beaumont-sur-Oise, 3 kilometres (2 mi) east-northeast of Persan, and 32 kilometres (20 mi) north of Paris. The airport supports general aviation with no commercial airline service scheduled.

Beaumont Sur Oise was a pre-World War II French Air Force airfield with a 5,000-foot (1,500 m) concrete runway (05/23).

The airfield was seized by the Germans in June 1940 during the Battle of France. It was used by the Luftwaffe only sparingly, with Luftlandegeschwader 1 (LLG 1), a glider unit being assigned to the airfield between April and May 1943, equipped with Henschel Hs 126 liaison aircraft; Dornier Do 17s to pull the units DFS 230 transport gliders. Later, in November and December 1943, Schlachtgeschwader 4 (SLG 4) operated Focke-Wulf Fw 190F/Gs as a ground-attack unit.

Beaumont was attacked on several missions by the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force and IX Bomber Command groups during 1943 and 1944.