Nouméa Magenta Airport facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Nouméa Magenta Airport l'Aéroport de Nouméa Magenta
IATA: GEA ICAO: NWWM
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	DSEAC Nouvelle-Calédonie
Location	Nouméa
Elevation AMSL	9 ft / 3 m
Coordinates	22°15′30″S 166°28′22″E / 22.25833°S 166.47278°E / -22.25833; 166.47278
Maps
Noumea in New Caledonia
GEA /NWWM Location in New Caledonia Show map of New Caledonia GEA /NWWM Location in Oceania Show map of Oceania
Runway
Runway Length Surface m ft 17/35 1,250 4,101 Paved
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 454,540 Passenger traffic change 6.0%
Source : Aeroport.fr AIP

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 2017, 428,679 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 by Seabees of Naval Construction Battalion 11 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.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

See also

In Spanish: Aeropuerto de Magenta para niños