Le Luc – Le Cannet Airport

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The airport Le Luc -Le Cannet, French Aerodrome du Luc -Le Cannet is a military airfield in France. The airport is a civil mitgenutzter military airfield of the French Army Aviation ( Aviation légère de l' armée de Terre ), the base since 1990 bears the name " Général Lejay ". It is located in the French department of Var (atomic number 83) in the area of Le Cannet -des- Maures, about 30 km west of Frejus and 115 kilometers east of Marseille.

History

The airfield was built before the Second World War.

After the capture by the Allies landed in August 1944, he was briefly used by the 27th and 324th Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Forces, who flew the P- 47 and the A-36. Added to this was up in the first half of September, a detachment of the 23rd Reconnaissance Squadron Photographic. Already on 13 September 1944, he was returned to the French authorities.

The airfield was home to the 1963 école d'application de l' ALAT (EA ALAT ), a flight school of the French Army, and a year later the pilot training of SA318 SA319 Alouette II and Alouette III began. In 1970, the training for the SA330 Puma began and in 1975 first night flight tests were conducted. Other courses were added in sequence.

The " German - French Army aviator training center Tiger" to the training of flight personnel was established in 2003 situated in Le Luc ( the counterpart to the training of aircraft technicians located in Fassberg ), and the French armed forces across NH90 Caiman training center Centre de formation Interarmées was in 2010 ( CFIA ) established.

Current usage

The airfield is also used by a part of the French Army Aviation Flight School, as well as the affiliated training institutions currently (2013 ) still mainly military; other parts of the school exist in Dax and Sainte- Léocadie ( Cerdanya ). Details see the "History " section.