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Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (FNLU) is the former principal airport of Luanda, Angola, situated in the southern part of the capital in Luanda Province. Long the country's main gateway, it was operated by ENANA EP and served as a hub for Fly Angola before commercial operations transferred to a new airport south of the city.
Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport lies in the southern part of Luanda, the capital of Angola, and for decades functioned as the country's principal international gateway. Operated by the state enterprise ENANA EP, it served as a hub for Fly Angola and handled substantial passenger and cargo traffic before airline operations were transferred to a newly built airport south of the city. For the simulator pilot, it offers a long history as a major African hub airport with two large paved runways and full instrument approach capability.
The airfield is located at coordinates 8.8553 degrees south, 13.2339 degrees east, in the southern part of Luanda, the capital of Angola, within Luanda Province. Field elevation is 233 feet above mean sea level.
The airport has two physical runways. Runway 05/23 is 12,166 feet long in one direction and 11,666 feet in the other, both hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS serving runway 23. Runway 07/25 is 8,186 feet long on the 07 heading and 7,609 feet on the 25 heading, also hard-surfaced and lit.
Air-to-ground communication is available on 129.5 MHz. Approach control operates on 119.1 MHz, ground on 121.9 MHz, and tower on 118.1 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 23.
Construction of the airport began in 1951 to serve the capital of the former Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola, and it was inaugurated in 1954 by Portuguese President Craveiro Lopes, in whose honour it was originally named Aeroporto Presidente Craveiro Lopes. In August, September and October 1975 the airport hosted tens of thousands of mostly white Portuguese Angolans fleeing to Lisbon during Operation Air Bridge, who camped at the field awaiting evacuation flights in the weeks before Angola's independence. Following independence from Portugal in November 1975, the airport was renamed Aeroporto Quatro de Fevereiro Internacional to commemorate the events leading to the country's independence, taking its name from the national holiday marking the start of the armed struggle against colonial rule on 4 February 1961. The field has seen several notable incidents over the years, including a fatal Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crash on take-off in 1979 and a Transafrik Boeing 727 accident on landing on runway 23 in high winds in 2000.
The airport was operated by the state enterprise ENANA EP and served as a hub for Fly Angola. All airline operations were transferred to the new Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport, located around 40 kilometres south of Luanda, with commercial flights ceasing at Quatro de Fevereiro on 1 March 2026.
