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A legal and historical approach of European airspace highlights the advantage taken by observing the construction of regional entities from a geographer’s perspective. The European integration sheds a new light on the various historical and institutional legacies as they are involved in a dynamic system marked by "growing ascendancy of the EU" (Blavoukos, 2011). The main international organizations in charge of the European air space management (ICAO, ECAC, Eurocontrol, EASA) are operating at several geographical scales in an evolving geopolitical context that cartography on its own would have a hard time to render properly. However, such a challenge has an obvious geographical dimension in organizing a common airspace and in sharing the national sovereignties over it.