Suai airport

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Suai airport
2020-08-02 Antonino Armindo at Suai Airport.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code WPDB
IATA code UAI
Coordinates

9 ° 18 ′ 12 ″  S , 125 ° 17 ′ 12 ″  E Coordinates: 9 ° 18 ′ 12 ″  S , 125 ° 17 ′ 12 ″  E
Height above MSL 22 m (72  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 3.4 km northeast of Suai
Basic data
opening 2017
operator Government of East Timor
surface 0.122 ha
Terminals a terminal

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The Suai Airport since 2017 Airport Comandante-em Chefe Estado the FALINTIL Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão , the airport of the East Timorese town of Suai , capital of the municipality of Cova Lima on the south coast of Timor . The airport is located near the village of Holbelis in Suco Labarai .

There is currently no regular scheduled service. Around 1970 Suai was served by Transportes Aéreos de Timor .

From May 30, 2014 until its reopening on June 19, 2017, the original airfield was expanded and finally given the new name after the former head of FALINTIL and politician Xanana Gusmão . The conversion of the 1220 m² area into an airport for international flights cost 67,691,189.85 US dollars.

Before the renovation, the airport had an asphalt runway 1053 meters long and 19.3 meters wide and was already suitable for aircraft up to the size of a Lockheed C-130 . The runway is now 1,500 m long, there is a terminal, a control tower, a fire station, a weather station and a helicopter landing pad with a medical area for the flights of the sick and injured.

Northern Oil & Gas Australia (NOGA) has been flying the route between Darwin and Suai since 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Suai Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ANTIL (Tatoli): Aeroportu Suai Sarani ho Naran XANANA GUSMÃO , June 20, 2017 , accessed on June 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Satellite images
  3. ^ Flight Global Archive 1976
  4. ↑ ANTIL (Tatoli): Ohin Lú-Olo Inaugura Aeroprtu Suai , June 20, 2017 , accessed June 20, 2017th
  5. ↑ Cova Lima District Development Plan 2002/2003 ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 2.24 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.estatal.gov.tl
  6. ^ Government of East Timor: Inauguration of Suai Airport , June 21, 2017 , accessed June 21, 2017.
  7. ^ Government of East Timor: Suai Airport receives first international flight , September 25, 2018 , accessed on September 26, 2018.