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Osvaldo Vieira Airport
Airport Directory » Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Osvaldo Vieira AirportAirport information for Osvaldo Vieira AirportCountry: Guinea-BissauLocation: Bissau Coordinates: 11.53.00N / 015.39.00W IATA Code: OXB Timezone: GMT 0 Direct flights form Osvaldo Vieira Airport Direct flights to Osvaldo Vieira Airport Find connecting flights to Osvaldo Vieira Airport Find connecting flights from Osvaldo Vieira Airport |
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Osvaldo Vieira International Airport (IATA: OXB, ICAO: GGOV) is an airport that assists the town of Bissau, the capital town of Guinea-Bissau. It is the only international airport in the land.
Osvaldo Vieira International Airport has 1 landing track, caput 03/21, with a length of 10,498 human foot (3200 m). The height of this landing track is 127 human foot (39 m). This landing track is also the 1 of the 3 in Guinea-Bissau that are paved. As with many airports in Africa, Osvaldo Vieira is only open from morning to sundown. There is now only 1 intercontinental voyage per hebdomad to Lisbon, Portugal on a Friday.
The airport had to be closed on June 7, 1998 due to intense struggling in and around Bissau. It was officially reopened in July 1999 when a TAP Portugal aeroplane transporting Prime Minister Francisco Fadul, alongside with numerous other very important person from both Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, district at Osvaldo Vieira.
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