Biography of guinea conakry airport code

International airport serving Conakry, Guinea

Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport^[5] (IATA: CKY, ICAO: GUCY), also known as Gbessia International Airport, is an airport serving Conakry, capital of the Republic of Guinea in West Africa.

It parallels the south shore of the Kaloum Peninsula approximately five kilometers from its tip. Autoroute Fidel Castro connects the airport to Conakry proper.

The Conakry VOR/DME (Ident: GIA) and Conakry NDB (Ident: CY) are located on the field.^[6][7]

History

The airport was built in ^[2]

In the s, Soviet Naval Aviation was granted facilities at the airport to serve as a staging base for Atlantic maritime reconnaissance patrols by TuRTs aircraft.^{[citation needed]}

It was reported in that most of the Guinean air force's aircraft were based at Conakry-Gbessia Airport.^[8] Current air force operations are conducted out of the