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Airport information for Hewanorra Airport Country: St. Lucia Location: St Lucia Coordinates: 13.45.00N / 060.57.00W IATA Code: UVF Timezone: GMT -4 Direct flights form Hewanorra Airport Direct flights to Hewanorra Airport Find connecting flights to Hewanorra Airport Find connecting flights from Hewanorra Airport

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Hewanorra International Airport (IATA: UVF, ICAO: TLPL), near Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean, is the bigger of the land's 2 airports and is bring off by the Saint Lucia Air and Seaports Authority (SLASPA).

The airport is a Fire Category nine airport that deals 500,000 riders a yr and has the capacity to manage the Boeing 747, Airbus A330, Airbus A340 and other similar aircraft. Aircraft upkeep there is action by Caribbean Dispatch Services. George F. L. Charles Airport is turn up in Castries and deals inter-Caribbean voyages.

History

Hewanorra International Airport was originally named Beane Army Airfield and was used a armed forces field by the United States Army Air Force Sixth Air Force and used in World War II. Beane Field was set off in early 1941 with a foreign mission to support Saint Lucia against an enemy assail.

The fifth Bombardment Squadron (nineth Bombardment Group) and 59th Bombardment Squadron (25th Bombardment Group) functioned B-18 Bolo bombers from the field from 28 Sept 1941-24 Mar 1944 winging antisubmarine patrols.

With the finish of World War II Beane Airfield was cut down in range to a frame staff. Its primary foreign mission was with the Military Air Transport Service, acting as a weather condition describing station and as a armed forces field for transport aircraft although the field's control tower was closed on 14 January 1946 for a legal brief time period, being reopened on 23 July 1946. Its principally unit was the MATS sixth Weather Squadron (Regional), with aggregative bid of the ground being that of the 24th Composite Wing Headquartered at Borinquen AFB, Puerto Rico.

The installation was renamed Beane Air Force Base in 1948, it was closed as a effect of budgetary cutbacks on 28 May 1949 with right of re-entry retained by the United States. Agreements were afterwards hit with the United Kingdom and, after, the St. Lucia authority upon independency.

The former USAF ground was then renovated and changed over into a commercial airport. There is a disused nor'-east/southwestward landing track northward of the briny east-west landing track that was division of the armed forces field. it is in poor status, alongside with a few diffusions.

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