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Oelemari Airstrip
IATA: none ICAO: SMOL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Luchtvaartdienst Suriname
Location	Oelemari, Suriname
Coordinates	3°06′N 54°33′W / 3.1°N 54.55°W / 3.1; -54.55
Map
SMOLLocation 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:

References

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

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