Queen Beatrix International Airport
|
Queen Beatrix International Airport Internationale luchthaven Koningin Beatrix Aeropuerto Internacional Reina Beatrix |
|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Aruba Airport Authority N.V. | ||||||||||
| Location | Oranjestad, Aruba | ||||||||||
| Hub for | |||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 60 ft / 18 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°30′05″N 70°00′55″W / 12.50139°N 70.01528°WCoordinates: 12°30′05″N 70°00′55″W / 12.50139°N 70.01528°W | ||||||||||
| Website | airportaruba.com | ||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||
 AUA
|
|||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
Source: DAFIF
|
|||||||||||
Queen Beatrix International Airport (IATA: AUA, ICAO: TNCA) (Dutch: Internationale luchthaven Koningin Beatrix; Papiamento: Aeropuerto Internacional Reina Beatrix), is an international airport located in Oranjestad, Aruba. It has flight services to the United States, Trinidad and Tobago, most countries in the Caribbean, the northern coastal countries of South America, Canada, and some parts of Europe, notably the Netherlands. It is named after Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, the now-retired Queen and former head of state of Aruba.
The airport offers US Border Pre-clearance facilities. A terminal for private aircraft opened in 2007. This airport used to serve as the hub for bankrupt airline Air Aruba, which was for many years an international airline. Before Aruba's separation from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 it was also one of three hubs for Air ALM.
During World War II the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force defending Caribbean shipping and the Panama Canal against German submarines. Flying units assigned to the airfield were:
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
...
Wikipedia