Camden Base is a small

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. Crop dusting aircraft use this airstrip;

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also takes place on the airstrip. The Camden (Field) Auxiliary Air Base was established as an emergency airstrip. It included one paved 3,000 ft (910 m) x 75 ft (46 m) runway with extensive taxiways and dispersed camouflaged parking bays for USAAC, USN and RN. It was defended by US Army infantry and AAA units. On 24 May 2011, Prime Minister

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, at the one-year anniversary celebratory rally marking the election of her coalition government to power, announced that the airstrip will be upgraded initially to a domestic airport to serve the

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airbridge. If successful, the airport would be upgraded to a full-scale

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. If upgraded, the airport will be the third international airport on the islands after

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in Trinidad and the

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in Tobago.

Operations

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References

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