Nouméa Magenta Airport

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Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 10 m / 33 ft 1,250 4,101 Code GEA		Location Nouméa 17/35 1,250 Address Nouméa, New Caledonia Elevation 10 m

Operator DSEAC Nouvelle-Calédonie Similar Avis, 3Click Car Hire, Air Caledonie, Budget, POINT ROUGE ‑ NOUMEA

Nouméa Magenta Airport (French: l'Aéroport de Nouméa Magenta) (IATA: GEA, ICAO: NWWM) is a domestic airport on the main island of New Caledonia. The airport is 3 km (2 mi) east northeast of the centre of Nouméa, the capital, and approximately 50 km (31 mi) from La Tontouta International Airport. In 2009, 372,581 passengers used the airport.

Air Calédonie has its head office on the airport property.

History

1931: First biplane flight on the beach in Magenta, located on the east coast of Nouméa.

1934: Creation of L'Aéro-club Calédonien.

1942: Arrival of the Poppy Force, a US Army division commanded by General Alexander Patch, making New Caledonia one of the main Pacific airbases for the US Army. A military airfield is built along the beach in Magenta, on the site of a former racetrack.

1956: Opening of the airfield to civilian air traffic, two years after the creation of Transpac, the first domestic New Caledonian airline and forerunner of Air Calédonie, which has regular flights between Nouméa, the Isle of Pines and the Loyalty Islands.

1970s: Construction of the first terminal, with a capacity of 100,000 people.

2001: Completion and opening of the new terminal, increasing capacity to over 300,000 people.

References

Nouméa Magenta Airport Wikipedia

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