Kamina Air Base
Kamina Air Base is a military airport located near Kamina in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was built as part of the Belgian near-national-redoubt concept after World War II. It accommodated ONUC military aircraft during the Congo Crisis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: Air Base serving Kamina in DR Congo
- Also known as: “FZSA”, “Kamina AB”, “Kamina Base Airport”, and “KMN”
Kamina Air Base
- Categories: air base, airport, military installation, and transportation
- Location: Kamina, Haut-Lomami, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-8.64271° or 8° 38′ 34″ southLongitude
25.25408° or 25° 15′ 15″ eastElevation
1,079 metres (3,540 feet)ICAO airport code
FZSAOpen location code
6G379743+WJOpenStreetMap ID
way 1009881830OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=airfieldGeoNames ID
214611Wikidata ID
Q6358138
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tajik—“Kamina Air Base” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قاعدة كامينا الجوية”
- Cebuano: “Kamina Base”
- Dutch: “Kamina-vliegbasis”
- French: “base aérienne de Kamina”
- French: “Base aérienne de Kamina”
- Hebrew: “בסיס אוויר קמינה”
- Indonesian: “FZSA”
- Indonesian: “KMN”
- Japanese: “カミナ空軍基地”
- Lingala: “Libándá lya Ndáko ya mpɛ́pɔ ya Kamina base”
- Lingala: “Libándá lya Ndáko ya mpɛ́pɔ”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Kamina Base”
- Persian: “FZSA”
- Persian: “KMN”
- Persian: “پایگاه هوایی کامینا”
- Swahili: “uwanja wa ndege wa madjeshi la Kamina”
- Swahili: “uwanja wa ndegelingala”
- Swedish: “Kamina flygbas”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи ҳавоӣ комино”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи ҳавоии Камина”
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