Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport

Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport Aeroporto Internacional Presidente Nicolau Lobato
IATA: DIL – ICAO: WPDL DIL Location of airport in East Timor
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		East Timor Civil Aviation Division
Location		Dili, East Timor
Elevation AMSL		25 ft / 8 m
Coordinates		08°32′47.59″S 125°31′28.99″E / 8.5465528°S 125.5247194°E / -8.5465528; 125.5247194Coordinates: 08°32′47.59″S 125°31′28.99″E / 8.5465528°S 125.5247194°E / -8.5465528; 125.5247194
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
08/26	6,065	1,849	Asphalt

Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport (IATA: DIL, ICAO: WPDL), formerly known as Comoro International Airport, is an airport located in Dili, the capital of East Timor. The airport was renamed after Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, an East Timorese politician and national hero.

Until recently, Dili's airport runway has been unable to accommodate aircraft larger than the Boeing 737 or C-130 Hercules, but in January 2008, the Portuguese charter airline EuroAtlantic Airways operated a direct flight from Lisbon using a Boeing 757, carrying 140 members of the Guarda Nacional Republicana.^[1]

Under Portuguese rule, Baucau Airport, which has a much longer runway, was used for international flights, but following the Indonesian invasion in 1975, this was taken over by the Indonesian military and closed to civilian traffic.

The airport was placed under the control of the Australian Defence Force during Operation Astute in May 2006.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Airnorth	Darwin
Vincent Aviation chartered by Timor Air	Darwin
Batavia Air	Denpasar/Bali
Merpati Nusantara Airlines	Denpasar/Bali
SilkAir chartered by Air Timor	Singapore

See also

	East Timor portal
	Aviation portal

• East Timor Civil Aviation Division

References

1. ^ euroAtlantic lands at Dili airport transporting GNR

External links

• Airport information for WPDL at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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• Map from Multimap