Fayence-Tourrettes Airfield | |
Nativename: | French: Aérodrome Fayence - Tourrettes |
Icao: | LFMF |
Type: | Public |
Owner-Oper: | Association Aéronautique Provence Côte d'Azur (AAPCA) |
Location: | Fayence / Tourrettes, France |
Elevation-F: | 738 |
Elevation-M: | 225 |
Coordinates: | 43.6081°N 6.7017°W |
Website: | www.aapca.net |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 10R/28L |
R1-Length-M: | 830 |
R1-Length-F: | 2,723 |
R1-Surface: | Grass |
R2-Number: | 10L/28R |
R2-Length-M: | 785 |
R2-Length-F: | 2,575 |
R2-Surface: | Grass |
R3-Number: | 32 |
R3-Length-M: | 650 |
R3-Length-F: | 2,132 |
R3-Surface: | Grass |
Footnotes: | Source: French AIP |
Fayence-Tourrettes Airfield (French: Aérodrome Fayence - Tourrettes) is a small airfield located 1.5km (00.9miles) south of Fayence and Tourrettes, both communes of the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.
On 13 June 1940, 12 Italian fighters FIAT CR.42, from 151° Gruppo of 53° Stormo, of Regia Aeronautica, attacked the airfield, destroying several aircraft on the ground.[1]
Nowadays, it is home to a large gliding club, the Association Aéronautique Provence Côte d'Azur (AAPCA) and to one microlight school. Runway 10L has two small tarmac landing strips for the exclusive use of gliders.