Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport formerly Rochambeau Airport
IATA: CAY ICAO: SOCA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	CCI Guyane[1]
Serves	Cayenne, French Guiana, France
Location	Matoury
Elevation AMSL	24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates	04°49′11″N 52°21′43″W / 4.81972°N 52.36194°W / 4.81972; -52.36194Coordinates: 04°49′11″N 52°21′43″W / 4.81972°N 52.36194°W / 4.81972; -52.36194
Map
CAY Location in French Guiana
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 3,200 10,499 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 446,039 Passenger traffic change 2.1%
Source : Aeroport.fr,[2] French AIP,[3]UAF,[4]DAFIF[5][6]

Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport (French: Aéroport de Cayenne – Félix Eboué) (IATA: CAY, ICAO: SOCA) is French Guiana's main international airport. It is located near the commune of Matoury, 13 km (8 mi) southwest of French Guiana's capital city of Cayenne. It is managed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of French Guyana (CCI Guyane).^[1]

Air Guyane Express has its headquarters on the airport property.^[7]

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Facilities
  


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  3 Airlines and destinations
  


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  4 Statistics
  


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  5 See also
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 External links
  

History

The first airfield at Cayenne, called "Gallion," was built in 1943 in ten months by the U.S. Army Air Corps as a base allowing bombers to reach Africa. Though quickly abandoned upon the completion of the new airport, it can still be found very close to the aerodrome.

The new airport was first given the name "Rochambeau" in reference to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, commander-in-chief of the French troops in the American Revolutionary War.^[8] It was purchased by France in 1949.

This name was controversial because the airport's namesake's son, Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, harshly repressed the Haitian Revolution during the Saint-Domingue expedition. Christiane Taubira, then-Member of the National Assembly of France for Guiana, requested in 1999 that the name be changed. Multiple proposals were submitted, including Cépérou, a seventeenth-century indigenous chief. It was finally renamed Félix Éboué Airport in 2012, the change becoming official in January of that year.^[9][10] The code for the airport remains CAY.^[11]

Félix Eboué Airport serves approximately 400,000 passengers per year.^[12]

Facilities

The airport has an elevation of 24 feet (7 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway, designated 08/26, which measures 3,200 by 45 metres (10,499 ft × 148 ft).^[3] It is open to public air traffic and international air traffic and is classified as Category A of section D.222-2 of the Code of Civil Aviation and classified SSLIA in category 7 (rank A). The terminal has an area of 12,000 square metres.

The Cayenne non-directional beacon (Ident: FXC) and VOR-DME (Ident: CYR) are located on the field.^[13][14]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Caraïbes	Paris-Orly
Air France	Fort-de-France, Paris-Orly, Pointe-à-Pitre, Miami
Air Guyane	Grand Santi, Maripasoula, Paramaribo, Saint-Laurent du Maroni, Saül
Azul Brazilian Airlines	Belém, Fortaleza
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Fort-de-France, Pointe-à-Pitre
Surinam Airways	Belém, Paramaribo

Statistics

Passengers^[15]

2000	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
457 168	375 844	374 394	386 979	385 142	400 025	423 849	435 440	495 994

See also

• Transport in French Guiana


• List of airports in French Guiana

References

1. 
   ^ ^ab CCI Guyane
   


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   ^ "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2014" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 8 February 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


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   ^ ^ab SOCA – Cayenne "Rochambeau". AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 6 December 2018.^{[dead link]}
   


4. 
   ^ "Aéroport de Cayenne – Rochambeau" (in French). L'Union des Aéroports Français. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 9 June. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
   


5. 
   ^ Airport information for SOCA from DAFIF (effective 26 October 2006)
   


6. 
   ^ Airport information for CAY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
   


7. 
   ^ "Directory: World airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 65.
   


8. 
   ^ http://www.guyane.cci.fr/fr/aeroport
   


9. 
   ^ Laurent Marot (21 January 2012). "Guyana found memory by changing the name of the airport". LeMonde (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2013.
   


10. 
    ^ order of 4 January 2012, J.O. 8 January 2012, NOR TRAA1200009A, http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000025114748
    


11. 
    ^ Stéphanie Bouillaguet (17 January 2012). "Rochambeau has already become Félix-Éboué". France-Guiana. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
    


12. 
    ^ "Cayenne airport". Aeroports Voyages. Retrieved 22 July 2018. Comprising of a single terminal building, the airport handles roughly 400,000 passengers per year.
    


13. 
    ^ Cayenne NDB
    


14. 
    ^ Cayenne VOR
    


15. 
    ^ Source : Site de l'UAF Archived 29 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
    

External links

Media related to Cayenne-Rochambeau Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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  CCI Guyane (in French)
  


• SkyVector - Cayenne


• Google Maps - Cayenne


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  Current weather for SOCA at NOAA/NWS
  


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  Accident history for CAY at Aviation Safety Network
  

• French Guiana portal


• France portal


• South America portal


• Aviation portal

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