Lanseria International Airport

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Lanseria International Airport
Lanseria
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IATA: HLA – ICAO: FALA
Summary
Airport type Private
Owner Consortium
Serves Johannesburg
Location Johannesburg
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 4,520 ft / 1,377 m
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Website http://www.lanseria.co.za
Map
HLA is located in Greater Johannesburg
HLA
HLA
Location in Greater Johannesburg
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 9,996 3,047 Asphalt
Landside exterior showing main terminal for scheduled flights
Airside exterior showing passengers exiting the terminal

Lanseria International Airport (IATA: HLA, ICAO: FALA) is a privately owned international airport that is situated north of Randburg and Sandton to the north west of Johannesburg, South Africa. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of the Boeing 757-300.

History

Lanseria Airport started out as a grass strip airfield in 1972, the brainchild of two Pretoria pilots – Fanie Haacke and Abe Sher. The land was originally bought by Krugersdorp and Roodepoort Municipality together with the Transvaal Peri-Urban Board and contracted to Lanseria Management Company on a 99-year lease since 1972.

The airport was officially opened by the Minister of Transport at the time, Hannes Rall, on 16 August 1974. Soon after its opening, Lanseria Airport hosted the Air Africa '75 (in 1975).

When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 he was flown to Johannesburg landing at Lanseria Airport.

On 15 November 2012 the airport was sold to a consortium consisting of Harith, an infrastructure development fund management company; the women's empowerment company Nozala; and the Government Employee Pension Fund, through the Public Investment Corporation.[1]

On 11 November 2013 the airport opened its new 45-meter-wide 07/25 Runway and also closing the existing 30-meter-wide 06/24 runway. Kulula was the first carrier to land on the new runway.[2] [3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Namibia flyafrica.com Windhoek[4]
Kulula Cape Town, Durban
Mango Cape Town, Durban[5]

Other facilities

National Airways has its head office building on the airport property.[6]

Various maintenance and avionics companies are situated on the airport including Interjet Maintenance, ExecuJet, Lanseria Jet centre and NAC (being the largest) with various other smaller outfits. The maintenance facilities at Lanseria International Airport provide small to midsize aircraft maintenance mainly focused on corporate aircraft and small regional airliners, up to a Bombardier CRJ700 or similar.

Accidents and incidents

  • 9 October 1977 – During Airshow Africa '77 – a Britten-Norman Trislander performed a wing-over but had insufficient altitude to recover and the aircraft impacted the runway, bounced into the air and came to rest some 500m further off to the side of the runway. The flying controls were disabled and main gear detached. One wing engine detached. The crew were not injured but the aircraft was written off.[citation needed]
  • On 2 October 1993, an Impala Mark I (no. 489) of the SAAF Silver Falcons aerobatic team crashed after suffering separation of the right wing during a performance at the Lanseria Airshow. The pilot ejected but was killed, as the ejection was initiated outside of the design envelope of the ejection seat.[7]
  • On 23 June 2012 a bomb scare was reported at the airport a reported unusual bag was left untended at the airport. all planes were given an alternate destination to land at.[8]
A Mango 737-800 (ZS-SJP) at Lanseria 
A Kulula.com aircraft at Lanseria Airport 
1Time's McDonnell Douglas MD-87 ZS-TRH at Lanseria 
USAF Boeing C-17 at Lanseria 

References

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  6. ↑ "Directions to NAC Lanseria." National Airways. Retrieved on 18 February 2011.
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