Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport
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Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport Aeropuerto Enrique Adolfo Jiménez |
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| Airport type | International | ||||||||||
| Location | Colón, Panama | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 8 m / 26 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 09°21′24″N 079°52′03″W / 9.35667°N 79.86750°WCoordinates: 09°21′24″N 079°52′03″W / 9.35667°N 79.86750°W | ||||||||||
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Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Enrique Adolfo Jiménez) (IATA: ONX, ICAO: MPEJ) is an international airport located in Colón, Panama, offering scheduled airline flights to Panama City, and to other destinations. This airport contains car rentals, a duty-free shop, restaurants, and coffee shops. The airport is located near the Sheraton Hotel and Radisson Hotel and Casino.
Prior to its use as a civil airport, the facility was a United States Army (later USAF) military airfield, established in 1918. It was turned over to the Panama Canal Zone government in 1949, and was converted into a civil airport. American control over the airport ended in 1979 with the turnover of the Panama Canal Zone to the government of Panama.
For over thirty years, the field was operational with the United States Air Force and other entities before it, eventually becoming France Air Force Base. Following its closure the field came under civilian control, becoming Colon Airport.
France Air Force Base was deactivated on 1 November 1949 by the United States Air Force due to budgetary reductions, turned into a civil airport in the United States Canal Zone, and renamed Colon Airport. The USAF, however, maintained jurisdiction over the airport until 31 December 1973, and it was occasionally used as a satellite field of Albrook AFB.
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