Mont-de-Marsan Air Base explained

Mont-de-Marsan Air Base
Iata:None
Icao:LFBM
Type:Military
Owner:Government of France
Operator:Armée de l'air et de l'espace
Location:Mont-de-Marsan, Landes
Elevation-F:203
Elevation-M:62
Coordinates:43.9117°N -0.5092°W
Pushpin Map:France Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
Pushpin Label:LFBM
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:09/27
R1-Length-M:3,603
R1-Length-F:11,821
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Footnotes:Sources:[1] [2]

Mont-de-Marsan Air Base (French: Base aérienne 118 Mont-de-Marsan) (ICAO: LFBM) is a front-line French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'air et de l'espace) (ALAE) fighter base located approximately 2 km north of Mont-de-Marsan, in the Landes department of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. The airport is at an elevation of 203 feet (62 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 09/27 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,603 metres (11,821 ft) in length.

The Air Base is home to two squadrons of Dassault Rafale, the most advanced French fighter aircraft. The base includes Centre d'Essais des Matériels Aéronautiques - CEMA (the French air force military experimentation and trials organisation), an air defense radar command reporting centre, and an air defence control training site.

The base is named after Colonel Constantin Rozanoff.

The airbase was formerly home to France's first operational squadron of nuclear bombers, the Dassault Mirage IVA.

Units:[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mont-de-Marsan (BA 118) Air Base - France.
  2. Web site: Base aérienne 118 . 2016-06-22 . 2016-08-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160822231832/http://www.ba702.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php/base-aerienne-118 . dead .
  3. Web site: Chiffres clés de l'Armée de l'air - L'Armée de l'air en chiffres : 2019-2020 (FR). French Air and Space Force. November 3, 2020.