Bamenda Airport
Mankon Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | ADC (Aeroports Du Cameroun SA) placed under the Ministry of Transport[1] | ||||||||||
Serves | Mankon, Cameroon | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 4,065 ft / 1,239 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 06°02′21.0″N 010°07′21.4″E / 6.039167°N 10.122611°ECoordinates: 06°02′21.0″N 010°07′21.4″E / 6.039167°N 10.122611°E | ||||||||||
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FKKV Location of Mankon Airport in Cameroon | |||||||||||
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Mankon or Bafut Airport (IATA: BPC, ICAO: FKKV) is an airport serving Bamenda,[2] the capital of the Northwest Province in Cameroon.
The Bamenda Airport was reopened to domestic flights on July 20, 2017 and will operate three flights a week. Flights from Yaounde through Douala every Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with the return flights the same day.[4] Camair-Co[5]
The Bamenda Airport also serves as a military airbase for the Cameroonian Airforce. It's the operating headquarters of the 202 Airforce base. The base has two operational helicopters and regular military flights. There is a military camp just before the airport operated by Cameroon's elite force the BIR.[6]
References
- ↑ www.adcsa.aero
- 1 2 Airport information for FKKV at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- ↑ Airport information for BPC at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ↑ http://bamendaonline.net/bamenda-camair-co-launches-new-air-route/
- ↑ "Cameroon-Info.Net :: Cameroun-Info.Net: Le Portail du Cameroun". www.cameroon-info.net (in French). Retrieved 2017-07-05.
- ↑ http://bamendaonline.net/bamenda-202-air-force-base-to-get-four-new-helicopters/
The Rapid Intervention Battalion of the Cameroon Military are very much in action here in Bafut.
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