Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport (French: Aéroport de Cayenne – Félix Eboué, IATA: CAY, ICAO: SOCA) is French Guiana's main international airport. It is located near the commune of Matoury, 13 km (8 mi) southwest of French Guiana's capital city of Cayenne. It is managed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of French Guyana (CCI Guyane).[1]

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport

formerly Rochambeau Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorCCI Guyane[1]
ServesCayenne, French Guiana, France
LocationMatoury
Elevation AMSL24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates04°49′11″N 52°21′43″W
Map
CAY
Location in French Guiana
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 3,200 10,499 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers538,782
Passenger traffic change 4.7%
Source : Aeroport.fr,[2] French AIP,[3] UAF,[4] DAFIF[5][6]

Air Guyane Express has its headquarters on the airport property.[7]

History

The first airfield at Cayenne, called "Gallion," was built in 1943 in ten months by the U.S. Army Air Corps as a base allowing bombers to reach Africa. Though quickly abandoned upon the completion of the new airport, it can still be found very close to the aerodrome.

The new airport was first given the name "Rochambeau" in reference to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, commander-in-chief of the French troops in the American Revolutionary War.[8] It was purchased by France in 1949.

This name was controversial because the airport's namesake's son, Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, harshly repressed the Haitian Revolution during the Saint-Domingue expedition. Christiane Taubira, then-Member of the National Assembly of France for Guiana, requested in 1999 that the name be changed. Multiple proposals were submitted, including Cépérou, a seventeenth-century indigenous chief. It was finally renamed Félix Éboué Airport in 2012, the change becoming official in January of that year.[9][10] The code for the airport remains CAY.[11]

Félix Eboué Airport serves approximately 400,000 passengers per year.[12]

Facilities

The airport has an elevation of 24 feet (7 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway, designated 08/26, which measures 3,200 by 45 metres (10,499 ft × 148 ft).[3] It is open to public air traffic and international air traffic and is classified as Category A of section D.222-2 of the Code of Civil Aviation and classified SSLIA in category 7 (rank A). The terminal has an area of 12,000 square metres.

The Cayenne non-directional beacon (Ident: FXC) and VOR-DME (Ident: CYR) are located on the field.[13][14]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Air Caraïbes Paris–Orly
Air France Fort-de-France, Paris–Orly, Pointe-à-Pitre, Port-au-Prince
Air Guyane Grand Santi, Maripasoula, Saint-Laurent du Maroni, Saül

Statistics
Passengers[15]
200020052006200720082009201020112012
457 168375 844374 394386 979385 142400 025423 849435 440495 994

See also

References
  1. CCI Guyane
  2. "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  3. SOCA – Cayenne "Rochambeau". AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 28 January 2021.
  4. "Aéroport de Cayenne – Rochambeau" (in French). L'Union des Aéroports Français. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  5. Airport information for SOCA Archived 6 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine from DAFIF (effective 26 October 2006)
  6. Airport information for CAY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  7. "Directory: World airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 65.
  8. http://www.guyane.cci.fr/fr/aeroport
  9. Laurent Marot (21 January 2012). "Guyana found memory by changing the name of the airport". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  10. order of 4 January 2012, J.O. 8 January 2012, NOR TRAA1200009A, http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000025114748
  11. Stéphanie Bouillaguet (17 January 2012). "Rochambeau has already become Félix-Éboué". France-Guiana. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  12. "Cayenne airport". Aeroports Voyages. Retrieved 22 July 2018. Comprising of a single terminal building, the airport handles roughly 400,000 passengers per year.
  13. Cayenne NDB
  14. Cayenne VOR
  15. Source : Site de l'UAF Archived 29 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine

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