Grootfontein Air Force Base
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Grootfontein Air Force Base | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Namibian Air Force | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Grootfontein, Namibia | ||||||||||||||
| Commander | Group Captain Hillary Lilungwe Sisamu | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,636 ft / 1,413 m | ||||||||||||||
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| Source: WAD[1] GCM[2] Google Maps[3] | |||||||||||||||
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The Grootfontein Air Force Base (IATA: GFY, ICAO: FYGF) is an air base of the Namibian Air Force in Grootfontein, a town in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. The air base is about 4 km (2 mi) south of the center of Grootfontein.[4]
It was formerly an air base for the South African Air Force. It was also the headquarters of the Namibian Air Force until these were moved to Karibib Air Force Base in 2016.[5]
The Grootfontein non-directional beacon (Ident: GF) and VOR-DME (Ident: GFV) are located on the field.[6][7][8]
Commanding officers
[edit | edit source]| From | Commanding Officer | To |
| Unknown date | Colonel Paavo Kamanya | Unknown date |
| Unknown date | Group Captain Abed Hihepa | 1 March 2018 |
| 1 March 2018 | Group Captain Mackenzie Manfred Tjivera | 28 July 2018 |
| 28 July 2018 | Group Captain Hillary Lilungwe Sisamu[9] | Incumbent |
Image gallery
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Entrance gate to the Grootfontein Logistics Base, April 1989.
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A C-130 Hercules aircraft takes off in the distance as a section of a Military Airlift Command C-5B Galaxy aircraft, foreground, is silhouetted by the morning sun at Grootfontein Logistics Base.
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British Bedford 4x4 being loaded from a military aircraft.
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Namibian workers watch operations following the landing of a Military Airlift Command C-5B Galaxy aircraft at Grootfontein Logistics Base.
See also
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[edit | edit source]- ^ Airport information for FYGF from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ^ Airport information for GFY at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ Google Maps - Grootfontein
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).]].
- OurAirports - Grootfontein Airport
- Accident history for Grootfontein Airport at Aviation Safety Network
- SkyVector - Grootfontein Airport
- Current weather for Grootfontein, Namibia at NOAA/NWS
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