Entebbe Airport
| Entebbe International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Entebbe, Kampala, Mukono | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Entebbe, Uganda | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 3,782 ft / 1,153 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 00°02′41″N 032°26′35″E / 0.04472°N 32.44306°ECoordinates: 00°02′41″N 032°26′35″E / 0.04472°N 32.44306°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | entebbe-airport.com | ||||||||||||||
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| Passengers |
 1,355,288 |
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| Aircraft movements |
26,886 |
| Cargo (tonnes) |
52,841 |
Entebbe International Airport (IATA: EBB, ICAO: HUEN) is the principal international airport of Uganda. It is near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and about 41 kilometres (25 mi) by road south-west of the central business district of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. The coordinates of the airport are 00°02'41"N, 032°26'35"E (Latitude: 0.044721; 32.443055). The headquarters of the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda have been relocated to a new block off the airport highway.
On 10 November 1951, the airport was formally reopened after its facilities had been extended. Runway 12/30 was now 3,300 yards (3,000 m), in preparation for services by the de Havilland Comet.
On 7 February 1952, Queen Elizabeth II took her flight back to London via El Adem, Libya after being proclaimed queen after the death of King George VI.
The Old Entebbe airport is now used by Uganda's military forces. It was the scene of a hostage rescue operation by Israeli Sayeret Matkal, dubbed Operation Entebbe, in 1976 after an Arab-German hijacking of Air France Flight 139 following a stopover in Athens, Greece en route to Paris from Tel Aviv. The scene of that rescue was the old terminal, which has been demolished except for its control tower and airport hall. According to a 2006 published report, plans were made to construct a domestic passenger terminal at the site of the old airport.
In February 2015, the government of South Korea, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency, gave the government of Uganda (GOU) a grant of UGX:27 billion towards modernization of the airport. In the same month, the GOU began a three phase upgrade and expansion of the airport to last from 2015 until 2035. The entire renovation budget is approximately US$586 million.
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