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Mar 23, 2013 News
– to be certified on Tuesday
In a matter of days the Ogle International Airport will be certified as a Category 2C operation by the Civil Aviation Authority- bringing the dream alive of accommodating Regional Class Aircraft like the Turbo Prop, Dash 8s and ATRs flights operated by LIAT and Caribbean Airlines, as well as executive type class aircraft.
According to the airport’s Public Relations Officials, this certification will form part of the celebration of 100 years of aviation in Guyana. President Donald Ramotar will deliver the feature address on Tuesday.
Last May, the airport commissioned its extended runway that was built to facilitate this new development.
The Ogle Airport Development Programme received 1.5M Euros funding from the European Union to extend the runway by 2,200 feet almost doubling its original length. The runway is also 100 feet wide.
At the commissioning of that runway, Head of the European Union Robert Kopecký had stated that the Ogle International Airport connects Guyana to the rest of the region, which is the institutional precondition to becoming the ‘Brussels of the Caribbean’ and in a sense, the heart of regional integration.
According to the statement released to the media, as part of Tuesday’s certification a LIAT proving flight will land, for the first time, at the Airport at 1500hrs. This will precede the official occasion.
It was noted that the LIAT aircraft will depart at 1900hrs at the conclusion of the occasion, proving the Airport’s certification for commercial night time flights.
On November 5, 2001, Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) formed by a group of aviation pioneers and with the Government entered into a 25-year Lease Agreement for the management, operation and development of the airport. This lease agreement is renewable for two further periods of 25 years. OAI assumed management of the Airport on December 1, 2001.
OAI was given the mandate to develop the airport to comply with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) involving a private investment of the shareholders of OAI of some US$3M.
The Airport gained its International Airport status in 2009 after the completion of its Phase I development. International scheduled passenger operations commenced from that date.
In the same year, Government and OAI signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the funding of the second phase of the development of the Airport with funding from a 2007 EU grant of 1.5M Euros.
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