Oecusse Airport

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Aeroporto Internacional de Oe-Cusse Rota do Sândalo
Terminal building of the airport
Characteristics
ICAO code WPOC
IATA code OEC
Coordinates

9 ° 11 '54 "  S , 124 ° 21' 8"  O Coordinates: 9 ° 11 '54 "  S , 124 ° 21' 8"  O
Height above MSL 0 m (0  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 4.5 km west of Pante Macassar
Basic data
opening 18th June 2019
operator Government of East Timor
surface 0.85 ha
Start-and runway
1 2200 m × 45 m concrete

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The Oecusse Airport (official name: Aeroporto Internacional de Oe-Cusse Rota do Sândalo) is an airport in the East Timorese Suco Costa (administrative office Pante Macassar , Special Administrative Region Oe-Cusse Ambeno ) in the west of the island of Timor . The airport is located next to the village of Palaban , about 4.5 kilometers west of the municipal capital Pante Macassar .

Surname

The airport is listed under the name Oecusse in the international lists. There is also the spelling Oecussi Airport . The airfield was locally named after the neighboring town of Airoporto Palaban until it was modernized . The removed Airport is now named Aeroporto Internacional de Oe-Cusse Rota do Sandalo ( German  Sandelholzstraße ).

history

Originally, Palaban was just an airfield with an unpaved runway. The runway was originally a meadow that is 1,100 m long and 26 m wide. There were no buildings or other facilities. Around 1970 Oecusse was served by the Transportes Aéreos de Timor .

  • The Palaban airfield, before the airport was built

  • Airstrip before expansion in 2014

  • On the tarmac at that time

The airport was expanded as part of the construction of the special zone for social market economy ( tetum Zona Espesial Ekonomiko Sosial no Merkadu , ZEESM) that began in May 2014 . A temporary tower, additional buildings and a fence were built by 2015. The runway was paved. The airport now has a terminal with two passenger boarding bridges , a tower and other buildings. The airport is now designed for a capacity of one million passengers. The official opening of the new airport took place on June 18, 2019. A passenger boarding bridge was used for the first time in East Timor on an A320 operated by Citilink . The construction cost was $ 120 million. The construction was carried out by the Indonesian company Wijaya Karya Tbk (Wika).

Since June 2017 there has been a flight connection with a DHC-6 400 (19 seats) of the authority of the Zona Espesial Ekonomiko Sosial no Merkadu (ZEESM) to Dili . Every day except Sundays, the route is flown there and back in 35 minutes. There are also charter connections.

  • Planning the ZEESM with the location of the airport

  • President Francisco Guterres arrives at Oecusse Airport with one of the ZEESM machines

  • The Citilink Airbus at the passenger boarding bridge

Web links

Commons : Flughafen Oecusse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Visit Timor: New Timorese Airport of Oecusse Hosts Indonesian and Dili Movements , June 18, 2019 , accessed June 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ ZEESM: “Taking Over Certificate” do Aeroporto Internacional de Oé-Cusse “Rota do Sândalo” , accessed on May 7, 2019.
  3. ^ Airport Oecussi Airport. Falling Rain Genomics, accessed June 18, 2014.
  4. ^ A b Arsenio Bano : Oecusse: Special Economic Zones of Social Market Economy. ( Memento of May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Zonas Especiais de Economia Social de Mercado de Timor-Leste [ZEESM TL] (Projecto Piloto Distrito Oecusse), pp. 18 & 24, 2014 (English), accessed on June 20, 2014 .
  5. ↑ The President's Facebook page: PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC ON A TWO-DAY VISIT TO OECUSSI , March 26, 2019 , accessed on March 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ Pilot information for Oecussi Airport , ourairports.com , accessed on June 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ J. Chrys Chyrstello: East Timor: The Secret Files 1973-1975
  8. ↑ a b ZEESM: Airport , accessed on June 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ Pictures from 2018 , accessed on July 16, 2018.