| Le Luc - Le Cannet Airport | |
| Icao: | LFMC |
| Type: | Public / Military |
| Operator: | Ministry of Defence |
| City-Served: | Le Luc, France |
| Location: | Le Cannet-des-Maures |
| Elevation-F: | 265 |
| Elevation-M: | 81 |
| Coordinates: | 43.3847°N 6.3869°W |
| Pushpin Map: | France Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| Pushpin Label: | LFMC |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 13/31 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,399 |
| R1-Length-F: | 4,590 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| R2-Number: | 09/27 |
| R2-Length-M: | 800 |
| R2-Length-F: | 2,625 |
| R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Footnotes: | Source: AIP France |
Le Luc-Le Cannet Airport is an airport located at Le Cannet-des-Maures, 6km (04miles) east of Le Luc, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. The airport is open to public air traffic, but has no commercial airline service. It also has military use as part of Base école Général Lejay, a French Army (Armée de Terre) training facility for combat helicopters and various ground equipment.
Le Luc airport was built prior to World War II and was seized by Allied Forces during Operation Dragoon, the Invasion of Southern France in August 1944. After minimal repairs by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force XII Engineer Command, it was turned over for operations use by XII Fighter Command on 22 August. It was not given an Advanced Landing Ground designation. Known units assigned to the airfield were:
With the combat units moving quickly up into Eastern France, the airport was returned to French civil control on 13 September.[1]
The airport resides at an elevation of 265feet above mean sea level. It has two paved runways: 13/31 measures 1399mx30mm (4,590feetx100feetm) and 09/27 is 800mx30mm (2,600feetx100feetm).