The Agostinho Neto Airport (
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''Aeroporto Agostinho Neto'') was an airport located near the town of
Ponta do Sol
Ponta do Sol (; en, "Cape of the Sun") is a municipality in the southwestern coast of the island of Madeira, in the archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 8,862, in an area of .
History
The settlement of Ponta do Sol began shortly af ...
on the northern tip of the island of
Santo Antão,
Cape Verde
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. The airport was named after
Agostinho Neto
António Agostinho da Silva Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) i ...
, an Angolan politician who lived on the island during his exile. On 7 August 1999
TACV Flight 5002
TACV Flight 5002 was a flight operated by TACV that crashed on 7 August 1999. Due to technical difficulties, the aircraft normally serving the route from São Pedro Airport on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde to Agostinho Neto Airport on t ...
from
São Pedro Airport
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(São Vicente) to
Agostinho Neto Airport crashed, killing all 18 occupants. For safety reasons, the airport was closed in the 1990s. Since then, Santo Antão does not have an airport. There are plans to build a new airport near
Ponte Sul, west of
Porto Novo
Porto-Novo (Portuguese: "New Port", , ; yo, Àjàṣẹ́, ), also known as Hogbonu and Ajashe, is the capital of Benin. The commune covers an area of and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.
Situated on an inlet of the Gulf of Gu ...
. Construction may start in the 2020s.
See also
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List of airports in Cape Verde
This is a list of airports in Cape Verde, which have been historically an important infrastructural need for the economy and development of the country, since being an archipelago makes it impossible to have terrestrial links between the main citie ...
References
External links
NTO on Great Circle MapperPhoto of the runway
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Airports in Cape Verde
Ribeira Grande Municipality
Defunct airports