Lubumbashi International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lubumbashi | ||||||||||
| Location | Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,295 ft / 1,197 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 11°35′28.80″S 27°31′51.52″E / 11.5913333°S 27.5309778°E | ||||||||||
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Lubumbashi International Airport is an airport in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (IATA: FBM, ICAO: FZQA).
Lubumbashi International Airport was founded in colonial times as the Elisabethville Airport. It was also known as Luano airport.
This airport played a high-profile role during the Katanga war. After it was seized by the United Nations Force in the Congo (ONUC) troops, the airport was used as a base against the secessionist government.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
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