48°50'15"N 003°00'52"E
runway: 09C/27C - 1400x20meters/4593x66feet - Asphalt
runway: 09L/27R - 650x50meters/2133x164feet - grass
runway: 09R/27L - 660x80meters/2165x262feet - grass (gliders only)
runway: 09/27 - 200x12meters/600x36feet - asphalt (Ultralight use only)
runway: 09/27 - 2400x80m - concrete (CLOSED) Note: last 200 meters on both ends are 40 meters wide
runway: 04/22 - 1825x80m - concrete (CLOSED)
Air field Coulommiers-Voisins (French: Aérodrome de Coulommiers-Voisins, also known as Advanced Landing Ground "A58 Coulommiers-Voisins", ICAO: LFPK) is an airfield 34 miles (55 km) east of Paris.
The airfield was built in the early 1930s by aviation enthousiasts. In 1938 the airfield was taken over by the Armée de l'Air. On 20 May 1940 the Armée de l'Air stationed Groupe de Chasse III./6 equipped with 25 single-engine Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 fighters and 2 ex-Air France Bloch MB.220 transports at the airfield. GC III./6 found an airfield that was totally unprepared for war, and had to rely on local farmers for support and lodging. Curiously enough, a squadron of the Royal Air Force (212Sqn, flying Blenheim reconnaissance aircraft and a Spitfire) was already present at Coulommiers since the outbreak of World War II in September 1939.
GC III./6 took an active role in the evacuation of the French President to London. Upon their return 30 He111 and 4 Bf110 attacked the airfield with 100 bombs. A war weary GC III./6 left for the Provence to be re-equipped and their place was taken by III/7 on 30 May. By repairing some of the aircraft of their predecessors they managed to increase their strenght. On 4 June, when the Dunkirk pocket was falling and the BEF was evacuating to Great Britain, 212 Squadron left for England in great secrecy. In spite of another air strike the mechanics of III./7 still managed to keep 12 Morane-Saulniers operational until 11 June, when the order was given to abandon the airfield. Combat forces from the airfield fought in the Battle of France during May and June 1940, until the final armistice with Germany of 20 June.
Unfortunately no photos of the airfield during World War II have been located
The Germans seized the airfield in June 1940 and from then on, Coulommiers was used as a German millitary airfield. Kampfgeschwader 54 (KG54), flying Junkers Ju 88A was stationed at the base between 10-26 July 1940. From Coulommiers KG54s' Ju88s were heavily engaged in the Battle of Britain, flying thousands of sorties during the Blitz, hitting targets all over the United Kingdom. As a unit, KG54 had 265 men killed, 121 men missing, 63 as POWs and 65 wounded, and also 62 aircraft during the operation. In late July KG54 moved out to Evreux.
The Luftwaffe used the following period to expand the facility with the two concrete runways. An entirely new dispersal area was built in a wooded area to the north of the airfield, along with numerous dispersal pads and taxiways.
In 1943, Coulommiers was brought back online as an operational base. Initially it used day interceptor fighters (Schnellkampfgeschwader 10 or SKG10, flying FW190A) to attack USAAF Eighth Air Force heavy bombers as part of the "Defense of the Reich" campaign. They were joined by KG2 engaged in night bombing attacks over Britain and dropping naval mines in the English Channel and along the British east coast. These attacks drew the attention of the USAAF and the airfield became the target of frequent attacks by Allied aircraft. It was straffed by the 343rd Fighter Squadron on April 10, 1944, losing one fighter pilot who got hit by anti-aircraft fire. Pilot Anthony Piscitelli was killed, his aircraft crashed on the south-east end of the airfield.
The airfield was attacked again on 14 June 1944 by Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses and on 23 June 1944 by IX Bomber Command B-26 Marauders. On 27 June over 30 P-51 Mustangs attacked the airfield on strafing runs.
In the summer of 1944 II./NJG4 moved in with RADAR-equipped Do217N-2s and Bf110Gs and engaged in night interceptor attacks against RAF Bombers. Servicability was poor however: of the 19 aircraft at the airfield 3 days before D-Day, only 10 were ready for action. NJG4 remained at Coulommiers until the Luftwaffe was forced to withdraw from Coulommiers as Allied ground forces were moving into the area during the Northern France campaign in August 1944.
The airfield was liberated by Allied ground forces about 1 September 1944 during the Northern France campaign. Almost as soon as the airfield was liberated, the United States Army Air Force IX Engineer Command 825th Engineer Aviation Battalion moved in to clear the airport of mines and destroyed Luftwaffe aircraft. The airfield became a USAAF Ninth Air Force combat airfield, designated as "A-58 Coulommiers Airfield" (sometimes called "A-58 Voisin Airfield"). On 8 September, after about one week of reconstruction, the airfield was fully operational with two 6,000-foot concrete runways.
425th Night Fighter Squadron used the airfield from 11 September until 13 October 1944, flying P-61 Black Widows.
410th Bombardment Group stayed at the airfield longer, from September 1944 until February 1945, flying the A-20 Havoc.
As the combat units moved east along with the Allied front lines, the airport became a transport airfield. A-58 was hosting C-47 Skytrains of the 437th Troop Carrier Group from February until the summer of 1945. After the end of the war the Americans returned full control of the airfield to the French authorities on 8 August 1945.
After the war the airfield was abandoned for a number of years, but remained in the hands of the French Air Ministry. During the 1950s, plans were made to use Coulommiers as an alternate for Le Bourget Airport. On 24 October 1952, a DeHavilland Vampire (10058, DU-A) of Ecole de Chasse 02.002 "Côte d'Or" (Dijon Air Base) made a belly landing at Coulommiers-Voisin, its pilot escaped unhurt. In addition, construction of two circular marguerite systems of aircraft hardstands was made in order to upgrade the airfield to NATO standards for possible military use. In 1960 a decision was made to reopen Orly Airport (at the time it was a USAF base - Orly Air Base) as a civil commercial airport and plans for the use of Coulommiers were discontinued.
1951 overview showing the entire site the Germans used, uncluding the dispersal site to the north (IGN).
DH Vampire '10058'/DU-A of EC02.002 "Côte d'Or" crashlanded at the airfield in October 1952 (source).
1961 overview showing the additions the French made to make Coulommiers a NATO standard base, with marguerite dispersal sites to the northwest (IGN).
In aerial photography the World War II air base is very evident with large numbers of wartime taxiways and both wartime runways still existing. Although being 70 years old, the concrete with expansion joints separating the poured sections are quite evident, but surprisingly well intact. Large numbers of Eighth Air Force bomb craters on both the 09/27 (primary) and the 04/22 (secondary) runways are quite evident by the concrete patches applied by the Air Force combat engineers in 1944.
Numerous bomb craters are also visible in the grass areas around the marguerites and the former Luftwaffe dispersal area. It appears that the American combat engineers resurfaced a significant amount of taxiways and dispersal pads connected to the runways with Prefabricated Hessian Surfacing (PHS). The PHS remains today, albeit in a deteriorated state. The Luftwaffe expansion to the north of the base remains intact, complete with dispersal revetments in the woods, and concrete taxiways. Numerous bomb craters are visible in earial photography of the open areas around the woods. Wartime airfield buildings and aircraft parkings surround the airfield. What seem to be the prewar French Air Force barracks and support buildings appear to be in various states of disrepair with overgrown vegetation and very tall trees that once lined the roads in a neat, military manner. A large number of bomb craters appear in the remains, with some buildings being used (probably as agricultural buildings) in the communes of Giremoutiers and Corbeville on the east side of the airfield.
The current airport has been overlaid on the remains of the wartime airfield, with the main 09/27 4,600feet runway having a fresh asphalt overlay on the wartime concrete runway. An asphalt taxiway is also laid over a wartime taxiway, with modern hangars and a terminal on the south side of the airfield. Two short grass runways were constructed over the wartime airfield, one used for gliders and the other for light aircraft. A fourth runway is laid out on the northern taxiway, intended for use by Ultralight aircraft. On the disused 04/22 a small set of runways is set out for the local radiocontrolled aircraft club.
Modern navigational aids are available and the facility is well maintained. The airfield is home to 4 Ultralight clubs, 2 glider clubs, 6 aeroclubs and an Ultralight flying school.
Late 2004 overview showing the entire site the Germans used (without the marguerites, those were added in the 1950s). Note the large number of dark dots, these are reminders of visits by Allied bombers. The starburst-like shape on the 04/22 runway is the r/c model-aircraft runway system (Google Earth).
February 2010 aerodrome chart
Coulommiers-Voisins 
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