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Entebbe International Airport
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| Entebbe International Airport | |||
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| IATA: EBB - ICAO: HUEN | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military (Public) | ||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda | ||
| Serves | Entebbe | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,782 ft (1,153 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 17/35 | 12,001 | 3,658 | Asphalt |
| 12/30 | 7,900 | 2,408 | Asphalt |
Entebbe International Airport (IATA: EBB, ICAO: HUEN) is the main international airport of Uganda. It is located near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and about 35 km (21 miles) from the capital Kampala.
Entebbe was the site of a seaplane base in the late 1930s, built by the British in order to facilitate long-range flights from Great Britain to South Africa and other points. Runways were added in 1947, and a terminal building was ceremonially opened by then - Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) in 1952.
The airport was the scene of a hostage rescue operation by Israeli Sayeret Matkal, dubbed Operation Entebbe, in 1976, after an Arab-German hijacking of an Air France flight out of Tel Aviv and permission from Idi Amin to land in Entebbe. The scene of that particular rescue was "the old airport", which was recently demolished except for its tower — right next to "the new airport". In late 2007, a domestic terminal was constructed at the site of the old airport, leaving the "new airport" to handle International flights exclusively. In 2006, the airport served 650,000 International passengers (+21.1% vs. 2005).
It is also a Cooperative Security Location of the United States military.
- Air Burundi (Bujumbura)
- Air Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam)
- Air Uganda (Nairobi, Juba, Kilimanjaro, Dar-es-Salaam)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Eagle Air (Juba)
- East African Airlines (Kisangani, Kinshasa)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Lilongwe)
- Kenya Airways (Nairobi)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Rwandair Express (Kigali)
- Royal Daisy Airlines (Juba)
- South African Airways (Johannesburg)
- Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
- United Airlines Ltd.(Gulu, Arua)
- Precision Air (Mwanza, Kilimanjaro/Arusha)
- Use of Entebbe Airport by US Military
- Uganda Civil Aviation Authority
- Satellite Photo, courtesy of Google Maps
- Malcolm McCrow's photos
- Airport information for HUEN at World Aero Data