page_title: Ambérieu-en-Bugey
section_title: Air transport
hierarchical_section_title: Ambérieu-en-Bugey / Geography / Channels of communication and transport / Air transport
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dassault Mirage III RD in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, die 1993 von der Base aérienne 278 an die Stadt Ambérieu-en-Bugey übergeben wurde.
context_page_description: Ambérieu-en-Bugey is a French commune in the department of Ain in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.
  It is the largest town in the arrondissement of Belley and the capital of the Canton of Ambérieu-en-Bugey which consists of 8 communes with a total of 21,226 inhabitants in 2007 with 17,466 inhabitants in its own urban area in 2010.
  It is also the capital of the historic region of Bugey.
  Its inhabitants are known as Ambarrois or Ambarroises. The city was called Ambérieu until 31 March 1955 when it became Ambérieu-en-Bugey.
  The city is known for being an important railway junction, but also for winning the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with citation at the Liberation.
context_section_description: Aerial activity has been present in Ambérieu-en-Bugey since the beginning of the 20th century. For example, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made his first flight in July 1912 at the civil airodrome of Bellievre.
  Ambérieu-en-Bugey Air Base was built during the Second World War as a temporary airfield by the United States Air Force XII Engineer Command in August 1944. Named the "Colonel Chambonnet Base", today it is a supply and repair centre for electronic equipment aboard aircraft, ground communications detection equipment, navigation aids, and a manufacturing centre for simple equipment.
  There is also a civilian aerodrome near Ambérieu-en-Bugey called the Ambérieu aerodrome but it is located in the neighbouring communes of Château-Gaillard and Ambronay.
caption: Representation of a Dassault Mirage III in Ambérieu-en-Bugey
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