Lubumbashi International Airport
| Lubumbashi International Airport | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||||||||
IATA: FBM – ICAO: FZQA
 FBM
|
|||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lubumbashi | ||||||||||
| Location | Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,295 ft / 1,197 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
Lubumbashi International Airport is an airport in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (IATA: FBM, ICAO: FZQA).
Contents
History
Lubumbashi International Airport was founded in colonial times as the Elisabethville Airport.[1] It was also known as Luano airport.
This airport played a high-profile role during the Katanga war.[2] After it was seized by the United Nations Force in the Congo (ONUC) troops, the airport was used as a base against the secessionist government.[3]
Airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
- In December 2001, Air Katanga Douglas C-53-DO ZS-OJD was written off in a landing accident at Lubumbashi International Airport after a delivery flight that originated in South Africa.[6][7]
- September 15, 1996, Air Katanga Douglas DC-4-1009 OO-ADN.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- ↑ Belgian troops parading at Elisabethville Airport
- ↑ TIME - Moise Tshombe at Elisabethville airport
- ↑ Rockets for the United Nations Force in the Congo (ONUC) at Elisabethville airport
- ↑ Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation timetable (August 2013)
- ↑ March 2014 Timetable, http://www.caacongo.com/horaires-20-mars-2014.pdf
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Accident history for FBM at Aviation Safety Network
- Airport information for FZQA at Great Circle Mapper.
- Current weather for FZQA at NOAA/NWS
- Airport information for FZQA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
  |
This article about an airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- Airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Lubumbashi
- Katanga Province
- Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command in Central and South Africa
- Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces
- World War II airfields in the Belgian Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo airport stubs
