Lieutenant Étienne Mantoux Air Base

Base Lieutenant Étienne Mantoux

Base Lieutenant Étienne Mantoux, formerly Étain-Rouvres Air Base is a base of the French Army Light Aviation. It is located on the Lorraine Plateau in northeastern France, 1.5 kilometers west of Étain; on the west side of the Départemental 906 (D906) (Meuse) road, adjacent to the village of Rouvres-en-Woevre in the Meuse département about 19 kilometers east of Verdun. It was built in 1937 and has been used by the French, British, German, and U.S. Air Forces, before the French Army took the base over, after 1967.