Amílcar Cabral International Airport
Amílcar Cabral Aeroporto Internacional | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | GVAC |
IATA code | SID |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 54 m (177 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 1 km southwest of Espargos |
Street | asphalted |
train | unavailable |
Basic data | |
opening | 1939 |
operator | Aeroportos e Segurança Aérea (ASA) |
Terminals | 1 |
Passengers | 576,323 (2011) |
Runways | |
01/19 | 3272 m × 45 m asphalt |
07/25 | 1500 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Amílcar Cabral International Airport is the most important and largest airport in the Cape Verde Islands on the island of Sal . It has been named after the Cape Verdean independence fighter and politician Amílcar Cabral since independence in 1975 .
The airport was built in 1939 within six months for the Italian airline Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane (LATI). At this airport, LATI planes made refueling stops on their airmail flights between Italy and Latin America. Due to the war, these flights and with them the stopovers on Sal were soon reduced and stopped entirely in 1941.
In 1949 the airport was reactivated and from 1950 to 1961 it was used by Alitalia in particular for stopovers on the South American routes. During the apartheid policy , the Organization for African Unity imposed an overflight embargo on South African airliners and only allowed stopovers on Sal in European and North American traffic. In addition, while the space shuttle was in operation, the airport was a possible emergency landing site in the event of an unscheduled landing.
Web links
- Amílcar Cabral International Airport website (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tráfego de passageiros internacionais supera o doméstico - Primeiro diário caboverdiano em linha. In: asemana.publ.cv. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; Retrieved January 22, 2017 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Details on ilpostalista.it
- ↑ Hard fight for the new Portugal . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1974 ( online ).
- ^ Space Shuttle Emergency Landing Sites. GlobalSecurity.org, accessed October 7, 2011 .