RAF Ascension Island

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Wideawake also Wideawake Field ( ICAO code FHAW, IATA Code ASI ) is a military airfield of RAF Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, which is operated by the U.S. Air Force. The base belonging to the village of Traveller's Hill has about 200 inhabitants. The runway was officially approved as Notlandebahn for the Space Shuttle.

History

After 1942, the first plane landed on the island, built in 1943, the United States Army Air Force of the airfield to an agreement with the British government. After the end of World War II, the airfield was abandoned in 1957 but taken from the U.S. Air Force again.

In the 1982 Falklands War Wideawake during Operation Black Buck a very important role as a logistics center.

Flights

Every week there are one or two flights of the Royal Air Force to RAF Brize Norton ( UK), and on the Falkland Islands, which are chartered for the Air Force, to a limited extent can also be used by civilian air travelers but. The U.S. Air Force flies the airport once a week from Patrick Air Force Base ( Florida, USA) at.

Since the late 1980s, the airport was also released for civilian air traffic in order to open up the island for tourism, but so far there was no interest in a commercial airline.