Nouméa Magenta Airport

Nouméa Magenta Airport

Aéroport de Nouméa-Magenta
Nouméa Magenta Airport; Aéroport de Nouméa-Magenta
	IATA: GEA; ICAO: NWWM;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	DSEAC Nouvelle-Calédonie
Location	Nouméa
Elevation AMSL	9 ft / 3 m
Coordinates	22°15′30″S 166°28′22″E / 22.25833°S 166.47278°E
Maps
	; Nouméa in New Caledonia
	GEA/NWWM Location of the airport in New Caledonia GEA/NWWM GEA/NWWM (Oceania)
Runways
Statistics (2018)
Passengers
Passengers	454,540
Passenger traffic change	6.0%
	Source: Aeroport.fr AIP

Nouméa Magenta Airport (French: Aéroport de Nouméa-Magenta; IATA: GEA, ICAO: NWWM) is a domestic airport on the main island of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The airport is 3 km (2 mi) east-northeast of the city centre of Nouméa, the capital,^[2] approximately 38 km (24 mi) southeast of La Tontouta International Airport. In 2017, 428,679 passengers used the airport.

Air Calédonie has its head office on the airport property.^[3]^[4]

History

1931: First biplane flight on the beach in Magenta, located on the east coast of Nouméa.
1934: Creation of L'Aéro-club Calédonien.
1942: Arrival of the Poppy Force, a US Army division commanded by General Alexander Patch, making New Caledonia one of the main Pacific airbases for the US Army. A military airfield is built along the beach in Magenta by Seabees of Naval Construction Battalion 11 on the site of a former racetrack.
1956: Opening of the airfield to civilian air traffic, two years after the creation of Transpac, the first domestic New Caledonian airline and forerunner of Air Calédonie, which has regular flights between Nouméa, the Isle of Pines and the Loyalty Islands.
1970s: Construction of the first terminal, with a capacity of 100,000 people.
2001: Completion and opening of the new terminal, increasing capacity to over 300,000 people.

Airlines	Destinations
Air Calédonie	Île Art, Île-des-Pins, Koné, Koumac, Lifou, Maré, Ouvéa, Tiga, Touho

Annual passenger traffic at GEA airport. See Wikidata query.

^ "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
^ ^a ^b NWWM – Nouméa Magenta Airport NWWM. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 28 November 2024.
^ "Renouvellement de Carte Résident Archived 2009-05-30 at the Wayback Machine." Air Calédonie. Retrieved on 8 October 2009. "Aérodrome de Magenta - BP 212 98845 Nouméa - Nouvelle Calédonie"
^ "Air Calédonie Contacts^{[permanent dead link‍]}." Air Calédonie. Retrieved on 2 October 2009.