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 Kamla Persad-Bissessar, 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 A.N.R. Robinson International Airport in Tobago.

Operations

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References

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