AviatDataAérodrome d'Ouessant OUI / LFEC
Lampaul, Finistère · France · Commune d'Ouessant (island municipality; airport owned and directly administered by the town council, per AIP France AD 2.LFEC.2)
5kpax · 2025
Limited hours
ICAO / IATALFEC / OUI
OperatorCommune d'Ouessant (island municipality; airport owned and directly administered by the town council, per AIP France AD 2.LFEC.2)
Coordinates48.4633°N, 5.0636°W
Elevation142 ft · 43 m
Time zoneCET/CEST (UTC+1/+2, DST observed) - metropolitan France, standard mainland zone
Passengers / yr4,788 (2025)
CustomsNo
Border controlNo
SchengenYes
Fuel—
Bonded—
AIP referenceLFEC - AIP France AD 2.LFEC (SIA/DGAC)
Operating hoursAFIS-staffed Mon-Fri 0615-1030 and 1400-1645, Sat 0615-1000; closed Sun and public holidays except PPR the day before for unscheduled commercial flights. Self-announce (A/A) applies outside AFIS hours; both AFIS and A/A use 118.105 MHz (OUESSANT Information / OUESSANT). Radio-equipped aircraft required. Finist'Air scheduled service runs daylight hours only (2 round trips Mon-Fri, 1 Sat morning); no Sunday scheduled service. Municipal duty phone for Sun/public holidays: +33 6 73 39 39 40, 0800-0900 local. Runway 05/23 has low-intensity edge lighting (white, red ends) and a PAPI on RWY 23; night VFR is approved only with limitations, reserved for MEDEVAC and aircraft authorized by the AD operator.
TerminalsNo conventional terminal; a small waiting-room/check-in building serves Finist'Air passengers, with no jet bridges and no third-party ground handling (AIP handling section is NIL).
Runways (1)
- 05/23 · 833 m / 2,733 ft · 24 m wide · Asphalt (bituminous concrete)
Airport contact
Single-runway (833 m asphalt) aerodrome supporting VFR and non-precision IFR approaches (RNP and NDB procedures on RWY 05/23; no ILS, NDB OSA 351 kHz), owned and administered directly by the Commune d'Ouessant. Connected to the mainland only by Finist'Air's Cessna 208B Caravans on a short hop (about 15-20 min) from Brest Bretagne, under a public-service delegation renewed through 2028. Passenger traffic climbed from 3,179 (2023) to 3,858 (2024) to 4,788 in 2025 (UAF/aeroport.fr statistics, +24.1% in 2025 alone), roughly half of it island residents; freight ran about 33 t and mail about 42 t in 2025 (occasionally flown by the fleet's electric Pipistrel Velis Electro), with 490 commercial movements in 2025. Atlantic fog and wind at this exposed island site cause frequent delays or cancellations, so travelers should treat the ferry (Compagnie Océane, from Brest/Le Conquet) as the reliable fallback rather than a backup of last resort.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available
Finistair
Self-handled, Finistair: sole commercial operator at Aérodrome d'Ouessant-Kerlaouenn (OUI/LFEC) under a délégation de service public (public-service-obligation contract, extended through 2028) running Brest Bretagne–Ouessant shuttle flights on two Cessna 208B Grand Caravans (F-HFTR, F-HFTS); Finistair performs its own check-in, ramp handling and turnaround at Ouessant, per the commune of Ouessant's own aerodrome page and the French Wikipedia entries for the aerodrome and for Finist'air. · Mon-Fri 07:15-12:00 and 15:00-18:00, Sat 07:15-11:15 (aerodrome opening hours, per commune d'Ouessant; not, site unreachable)
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Aircraft fuel
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De-icing
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Part-145 line maintenance
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Part-145 base maintenance
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Component shops & overhaul
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Flight catering
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Aircraft cleaning
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Ground support equipment
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Cargo handling
Available
Finistair
Self-handled, Finistair: in addition to passengers, carries mail, press and general freight to/from the island as part of its public-service mandate, plus emergency medical evacuations and medical-specimen transport; operates a dedicated electric Pipistrel Velis Electro (F-HGAN) alongside its Cessna 208B Caravans for this cargo/medical role, per Finistair's own site and the French Wikipedia entries for Finist'air and for the aerodrome. Airport-specific traffic was 3,179 passengers in 2023 (most recent published aerodrome figure); Finistair's often-cited ~6,000 pax/year and 120t cargo/50t mail figures are company-wide across all its routes, not Ouessant alone.
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Passenger & crew transport
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Hotel & travel
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