Landivisiau military airfield
| Base aeronautique navale de Landivisiau | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | LFRJ | ||
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| Height above MSL | 106 m (348 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 5 km northwest of Landivisiau | ||
| Street | 3 km to the N 12 | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | around 1965 | ||
| operator | Marine national | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 08/26 | 2700 m × 45 m concrete | ||
The Base aéronautique navale de Landivisiau (BAN Landivisiau) is a military airfield of the French Aéronavale , the naval aviator of the National Navy . The base is located in the region of Brittany in the department of Finistère in the field of communities Bodilis , Saint-Servais , Saint-Derrien , Plougar and Plounéventer . It is the home base of the French carrier fighter jets.
history
After the end of France's last great colonial war in Algeria and with the establishment of the Soviet Northern Fleet during the Cold War , the area of operations of the French Navy shifted to the North Atlantic in the early 1960s . The carrier aircraft, which had hitherto mainly been stationed on the Mediterranean , should therefore be relocated to Brittany near the local war port of Brest . For this purpose, a new, generously dimensioned base was created.
The new land base for the French carrier aircraft opened in 1965. She was first 1967 home base of two seasons Étendard IVM / P - fighter-bombers and in the same year two seasons were F-8E Crusader - hunters set up.
Later the place became an additional base for liaison and training aircraft. The replacement of the first Étendard by the Super Étendard began in 1978. The last (worldwide) active Crusaders were decommissioned at the end of 1999, a year before the first Rafale M arrived at the Flotilla 12F at the end of 2000 (the world's first ever on an operational airfield) .
The NATO Tiger Meet took place in Landivisiau in 2008 and the Rafales, stationed on the Charles de Gaulle , were deployed in 2011 in the international military operation in Libya in 2011 . In the same year, a second Rafale squadron was set up with the Flotilla 11F .
The last Super Étendards in service with Flotilla 17F were decommissioned in July 2016 and this unit also received the Rafale M.
Todays use
The Aéronavale uses the base at the time (2016) as follows:
- Flotilla 11F , 12F and 17F , three squadrons of multi- role fighter aircraft Dassault Rafale M
- Escadrille 57S , a squadron training aircraft for the Dassault Falcon 10M maritime surveillance
There are also some non-flying formations.
Web links
- Homepage of the BAN Landivisiau
- Base d'aéronautique navale de Landivisiau, French Website about the history of the base