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Cannes–Mandelieu Airport

airport serving Cannes, France

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1330995 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cannes–Mandelieu Airport or Aéroport de Cannes–Mandelieu (IATA: CEQ, ICAO: LFMD) is an airport serving the city of Cannes. It is located 5 km west of Cannes and east of Mandelieu-la-Napoule, both communes of the Alpes-Maritimes département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur région of France.

Dominique Thillaud is the President of Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (ACA), which includes Nice Côte d'Azur Airport and Cannes–Mandelieu Airport.

Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (ACA) announced on 26 July 2013 that it had acquired 99.9% of shares of AGST (Saint-Tropez Airport), previously owned by the Reybier group for the past 15 years.

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See also

Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano

References

External links

Aéroport Cannes Mandelieu (official site) (in French)

Aéroport de Cannes - Mandelieu (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)

Cannes Mandelieu - LFMD - WikiAirports

"Current weather for LFMD".

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cannes–Mandelieu Airport” as airport serving Cannes, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cannes, Mandelieu and Airport.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cannes, Mandelieu and Airport providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Cannes–Mandelieu Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport serving Cannes, France” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1330995. VIAF identifies the subject as 145824423. Authority coordinates are 43.546, 6.954. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cannes–Mandelieu Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.