[1] The airport is located 5.5 km (3.0 NM) north-northeast of Châteauroux[1] in Déols, a commune of the Indre department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France.

[4] In the years 1990 to 2000, the airport was used regularly by Air France and British Airways to train future pilots and flight crews for Concorde.

The airport has a large aeronautical maintenance area called " Chateauroux Air Center " on which the following companies are installed in 2025: Thus, the airport is a "one stop shop"; that is to say that a commercial aircraft owner (airline, lessor) finds all the activities (storage, maintenance, painting, cargo conversion, dismantling and recycling) on one and the same site.

The center offers certification specializing in areas like aviation fire protection and wildlife hazard control.

The airport offers for 2025 around twenty "charter" flights during the spring-summer season, such as Portugal, Canary Islands, Croatia and Montenegro, Malta, Jordan or Greece.