Nancy-Essey Airport
In 1936, the current airport was built as a grass airfield for the French Air Force, and was used as a flight school.In addition to the military use before World War II, because of the proximity of Paris, the airport was used in the mid-1930s by the postal company Blue Air, which operated a service between Paris-Le Bourget – Nancy – Strasbourg, but this was short lived.American units began to move into the Nancy area in late September 1944, and the airfield was liberated in early October.Relatively undamaged, some Pierced Steel Planking was laid down to patch the main runway, and the airfield was declared operationally usable by the combat engineers on 15 October 1944.The site hosts a school of pilot training, and is used primarily for pleasure flights and business charters.