Oshakati Airfield
| Oshakati Airfield | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | FYOS | ||
| IATA code | OHI | ||
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| Start-and runway | |||
| 17/35 | 1036 m × 30 m | ||
The airfield Oshakati is a disused airfield of the city Oshakati in Namibia . It was built together with the city at the time of the South African occupation of what was then South West Africa as an airfield for a military station.
In 1972 there was a large demonstration at the airfield on the occasion of the visit of the UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to Namibia. He was on an official visit to the country in March because, following the resolution of the UN Security Council on February 4th in Addis Ababa in favor of self-determination for the Namibians, he was inspecting the situation himself. There were many discussions with individual residents and population groups. Around 1976 he was in a temporary military area of operation of the SADF , which fought the MPLA , SWAPO and Cubans in southern Angola from South West Africa .
The airfield is about two kilometers south of the city and is closed for an indefinite period. The runway is specified to be 1036 meters (3400 feet) long and 30 meters wide.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ICAO Doc 7910 (Location Indicators), Issue 151, March 2014
- ↑ Infrastructure ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Parliament Of Namibia. on www.parliament.gov.na
- ↑ Joe Pütz, Heidi von Egidy, Perri Caplan: Namibia Handbook and Political Who's who . Page 289, online at www.books.google.de
- ^ SAIRR : A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1972 . Johannesburg 1973, pp. 441-442
- ^ SAIRR: A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1976 . Johannesburg 1977, pp. 422, 478-481
- ↑ Oshakati Airstrip on tourbrief.com (Engl.)
- ^ Oshakati (OHI) information theAirDB.com
