48°30'02"N 003°45'48"E
Runway: 10/28 - 0000meters/3215x328feet - grass (CLOSED)
Runway: 03/21 - 0000meters/4101x328feet - grass (CLOSED)
Air field Romilly (french: Aèrodrome de Romilly, ICAO: LFQR) was an airfield 110 kilometers east of Paris, France.
The airfield was built in near the end of World War I. Romilly Airfield was used by the Aviation General Store No. 1 (french: Magasin Général d'Aviation n°1, or MGA 1). Its mission was twofold: the first was to store part of the war reserve (airplanes and cars), the other was to support the aviation regiments in the east of France (Thionville, Metz, etc.). For this last mission, it was always stocked with spare parts, but it also had workshops and facilities to perform major maintenance or seemingly impossible to perform repairs. Its storage capacity exceeded the equivalent of 200 single engined aircraft. Pilots assigned to this unit were qualified to fly any aircraft type in the military inventory.
Romilly Airfield also served as an emergency landing for civil and commercial aviation. Located on the routes of Paris-Lyon-Marseille and Paris-Prague, it hosted some of the largest aircraft of that era.
In 1930 the unit expanded significantly, and the airfield grew along with it. From a modest 800x800meters it nearly doubled in size to 1400x800 meters.
The airfield was chosen to become the Central Advanced Flying School "Etampes-Mondesir" in 1938, which resulted in another expansion. As a result a new runway (NE/SW) was laid out in April 1939. On the fourth of June 1940 its commander warned that at the current speed the new airfield would not be complete until October 1943. Obviously the Germans were not going to wait for that formality and took posession of the airfield regardless. They settled for the construction of just a few dispersals on the east side.
When the Americans took over the airfield in 1944 they only used the old E-W runway, as is shown by records held by the French Air Ministry. They handed the airfield back to French control in October 1945, after which it was turned into a prison camp for German POWs.
The Air Ministry allowed slow and light aircraft onto the field by February 1947. By September that same year this had increased to civilian transport aircraft. 
Romilly-sur-Seine in 1948, about a year and a half after aircraft had begun to return to the airfield (IGN, via Géoportail).
The French Air Force took a more secondary role at the airfield. It's importance should not be underestimated however. The Air Force maintenance warehouse still was an important client, in spite of being physically seperated from the airfield by the Route Nationale 19. 
Romilly, 1953. The hangars on the southwest side are still abandoned and without a roof. The ones on the southeast side apprear to be functional, but the north-south taxitrack suggests those are not used, and the planes to to the north side instead (IGN, via Géoportail).
The hangars on the southern half of the airfield had been completely removed when this photo was taken in May 1965 (IGN, via
Géoportail).
The Armée de l'Air maintenance warehouse is still visible across the street from the airfield in this 1969 photo. Hardly anything remained of the hangars and platforms on the south side of the airfield (IGN, via
Géoportail).
When the Armee de l 'Air warehouse was closed in the early 1980s, it proved to be the beginning of the airfields' demise. Much of the airfield was being redeveloped into a commercial area..
For a period of about 30 years, not much changed at the airfield, as can be seen in this June 2000 photo (IGN, via Géoportail).
Aerial view of Romilly in late 2004, the former Air Foce depot has already been turned into a commercial area (Google Earth)
Aviation map depicting Romilly in late 2005
Against much protest by the users of the airfield, on 9 December 2009 the decision was made to close the 03/21 runway. Even though the runway accounted for only an estimated 5% of the traffic, they feared the closure was the first step in converting the whole airfield into a photo-voltaic power plant. The fear turned into reality in April 2010, when during a meeting it was announced that the airfield is to be closed, with only a small Ultralight airstrip remaining. No guarantees for the Ultralight strip were given however, so the airfields' airclubs ended up in legal proceedings against the city council and a project developer.
Construction creeping towards Romilly remaining active runway in 2010.
Aerial photo showing how much construction is creeping towards the remaining active runway in 2010 (Google Earth).On 8 June it was announced that the airfield was to close on 1 August 2011. The Romilly aeroclub has since moved its activities to Troyes airfield. Demolition of the hangar and the club house took place in late June 2012.
An excavator is seen taking down the hangar in June 2012 (
lest-eclair.fr).
Romilly (CLOSED) 
Romilly (CLOSED)