Misplaced Pages

Oelemari Airstrip: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 21:06, 21 May 2013 editJetstreamer (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, New page reviewers, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers87,936 editsm Undid revision 556059050 by Nardisoero (talk) Unsourced section← Previous edit Revision as of 22:23, 21 May 2013 edit undoNardisoero (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users5,592 edits Undid revision 556164047 by Jetstreamer (talk)Next edit →
Line 41: Line 41:
|]|Paramaribo, ] |]|Paramaribo, ]
}} }}

== Accidents and incidents ==
*{{flagicon|Dutch Guiana}} On 15 August 1960 a ], registered PZ-TAD ''(Formerly N2570B, 48-632)'' stalled during landing at Oelemari and was reported written-off with no fatalities. The pilot was D.L. Walker. The airplane was leased by the Surinamese Government/SLM from Ambrose Aviation for equipment transport for landing-strip construction, under "]". <ref>http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1946.html</ref>


==References== ==References==

Revision as of 22:23, 21 May 2013

Airport in Oelemari, Suriname
Oelemari Airstrip
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorLuchtvaartdienst Suriname
LocationOelemari, Suriname
Coordinates3°06′N 54°33′W / 3.1°N 54.55°W / 3.1; -54.55
Map
SMOL is located in SurinameSMOLSMOLLocation in Suriname
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
grass

Oelemari Airstrip (ICAO: SMOL) is an airstrip located near the Oelemari river in Suriname. This small grass airstrip was constructed as part of the Operation Grasshopper project in Suriname.

Airstrip history

The Oelemari Airstrip is a small airport with an unpaved runway in southwestern Suriname of which the runway is laid out in the framework of Operation Grasshopper and it is named after the Oelemari river. Beginning 1960 an expedition, led by Ir. Herman I.L. van Eyck, arrived there to be able to start the construction of the runway. On July 9 of that year a Northrop YC-125 Raider, a three-engined STOL utility transport airplane landed there for the first time, which was used for further construction. More than a month later that same plane, which was leased by the Surinaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij from Ambrose Aviation in the U.S.A., crashed there. Oelemari was opened for public traffic in March 1962.

Charters and destinations

Airlines serving charterflights to this airport are:

AirlinesDestinations
Blue Wing AirlinesParamaribo, Zorg en Hoop Airport
Caricom AirwaysParamaribo, Zorg en Hoop Airport
Gum AirParamaribo, Zorg en Hoop Airport
Hi-Jet Helicopter ServicesParamaribo, Zorg en Hoop Airport
Suriname Air Force / Surinaamse LuchtmachtParamaribo, Zorg en Hoop Airport

Accidents and incidents

  • Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands) On 15 August 1960 a Northrop YC-125B Raider, registered PZ-TAD (Formerly N2570B, 48-632) stalled during landing at Oelemari and was reported written-off with no fatalities. The pilot was D.L. Walker. The airplane was leased by the Surinamese Government/SLM from Ambrose Aviation for equipment transport for landing-strip construction, under "Operation Grasshopper".

References

  1. http://bluewingairlines.com/english/scheduled-flights/
  2. http://www.caricomairways.com/destinations.html
  3. http://www.gumair.com/destinations?5c9dc4b79c23ba6a007ee9697830b5e9=0719f9b031fbd87ec38c0eaeb912ae59
  4. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1946.html
Stub icon

This article about an airport in Suriname is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: