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Ratmalana Airport
Airport Directory » Sri Lanka » Colombo » Ratmalana AirportAirport information for Ratmalana AirportCountry: Sri LankaLocation: Colombo Coordinates: 06.49.00N / 079.53.00E IATA Code: RML Timezone: GMT +5.3 Direct flights form Ratmalana Airport Direct flights to Ratmalana Airport Find connecting flights to Ratmalana Airport Find connecting flights from Ratmalana Airport |
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Ratmalana Airport (IATA: RML, ICAO: VCCC) was originally the international airport for Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is currently used for domestic voyages and for armed forces intentions.
In 1934 the State Council of Ceylon (as it then was) do a determination to build an airport within make of the capital town of Colombo and determined on Ratmalana as the most good location. On 27 November 1935 a de Havilland Puss Moth flown by Tyndalle Bisco, Chief winging teacher of the Madras Flying Club, was the 1st aircraft to bring down at the new airport.
During the Second World War it was used as an Royal Air Force ground, with No 30 Squadron winging Hawker Hurricanes from there against Japanese Navy aircraft. QEA winged civilianised Consolidated B-24 Liberator and Avro Lancastrian planes there from Perth, Western Australia, on what was at the clip the world's longest non-stop air path. The voyage elongated after the conflict with an intermediate re-fueling halt at the Cocos Islands.
Ratmalana airport at 1 clip had the land's briny depot, with the Douglas DC-3 Dakota and Lockheed Constellation planes of Air Ceylon winging out of it. In 1947, KLM winged Douglas DC-4 Skymasters through the airport on the road from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). In the 1950s, BOAC winged Canadair Argonauts (DC4 with Rolls Royce Merlin engines) from Ratmalana to London. On 11 August 1952, 3 calendar month after the inaugural service of a rider jet plane, BOAC set about its Comet service between Colombo and London. Later (March 1962 - March 1971) Air Ceylon functioned a Comet service on this path to London.
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