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Catumbela Airport lies on the coast of Benguela Province, Angola, close to the town of Catumbela, and is built around a single very long hard-surfaced runway equipped with an ILS. Opened in its current expanded form in 2012, it was developed with an eye to becoming a high-capacity alternative to Luanda, though it remains a modest domestic operation in practice.
Catumbela Airport serves the coastal town of Catumbela in Benguela Province, Angola, and is operated by ENANA, the state aeronautical navigation and airports company. It is notable to a visiting pilot chiefly for its runway, an unusually long strip built to a scale intended to support significant international traffic and to act as a relief airport for Luanda, though current scheduled operations are limited to a handful of domestic and regional routes.
The airport sits at Catumbela, a coastal city in Benguela Province on Angola's Atlantic seaboard. No specific airspace classification, ATZ dimensions or details of neighbouring controlled airspace are given in the available material, so pilots should consult current Angolan AIP charts for controlled airspace boundaries before flight.
Catumbela has a single physical runway, 02/20, of hard surface construction and 12,146 feet in length, a considerable paved strip by regional standards. An ILS is provided for runway 20.
No air-ground or air traffic control communications frequencies are published for Catumbela. Instrument approach guidance is available via the ILS serving runway 20, but no other navaids or frequency details are listed.
Catumbela Airport was expanded and restored, reopening in 2012 with facilities and a runway scaled to handle substantial passenger volumes, reportedly designed with a capacity implying annual movements of around 2.2 million passengers. It was conceived as an alternative airport to Luanda. A national certification process for the airport, dependent on meeting ENANA's infrastructure and security standards, was reported to be expected for completion in February 2019.
The airport is operated by ENANA and has seen scheduled service from TAAG Angola Airlines, linking Catumbela with Luanda, Lubango and Ondjiva, and from Fly Angola, connecting Catumbela with Luanda and Windhoek-Hosea Kutako. Despite its large-scale infrastructure, current traffic is limited to a small number of domestic and regional routes. No communications frequencies are currently published for the field, and pilots planning a visit should check the latest Angolan AIP for procedural and permission requirements.
