Spriggs Payne Airport

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Coordinates: 06°17′21″N 10°45′31″W / 6.28917, -10.75861

Spriggs Payne Airport
IATA: MLW – ICAO: GLMR
Summary
Airport type Public
Serves Monrovia, Liberia
Elevation AMSL 25 ft / 8 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 6,000 1,829 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF [1]

Spriggs Payne Airport (IATA: MLW, ICAO: GLMR) is an airport located three miles from the Monrovia, the capital of the Republic of Liberia in West Africa. Since early 1991 Spriggs-Payne, formerly a domestic airport, has handled limited international flights for Liberia. It now has scheduled commercial connecting flights to Freetown, Sierra Leone; Conakry, Guinea; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; and Lagos, Nigeria.

The airport is named after James Spriggs Payne who was president in 1868-70 and again in 1876-78.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Airport information for GLMR at World Aero Data (source: DAFIF)

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