Groupe ADP de Gaulle Airport officially started its operations in March 1974. In 1976, 20 million passengers flew through the Parisian airports. During the 1980s and 1990s, L’aéroport de Paris, which became "Aéroports de Paris" in 1989 and "Paris Aéroport" in 2016, built new satellites and terminals for the Charles de Gaulle airport (terminal 2, terminal 3). By 1987, traffic in the Parisian airports grew to 40 million. A TGV train station opened within the Charles de Gaulle airport in 1994. Aéroports de Paris became a public company on 20 April 2005, although the French government retained a majority of the company's
Paris–Le Bourget Airport crossing in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis", and had been the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane "The White Bird (L'Oiseau blanc)", which took off in its own attempt at a transatlantic flight but then mysteriously disappeared. On 25 June 1940, Adolf Hitler began his first and only tour of Paris, with Albert Speer and an entourage, from Le Bourget Airport. On 16 June 1961, the Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget Airport. In 1977, Le Bourget was closed to international airline traffic and in 1980 to regional airline traffic, but remains