A page of local history is turning. Opened to public air traffic in 1966, the Jean-Coutty aerodrome will be simply wiped off the map in a few weeks. The order to close the site, signed on June 24 by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, was published in the Official Journal this Wednesday, July 9.
“Mayors cannot absolve themselves”
The axe has fallen and the news is sure to provoke reactions. “It’s sad for the basin,” laments Baptiste Grein, the president of the aero-club, well aware that the outcome had become inevitable. Since the denunciation in November 2018 by the mayor of Oyonnax of the land exploitation agreement signed with the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC), everyone knew that the site was doomed, despite the delay of a few months obtained after a…
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