Bongolo Airport Work

Annually, we work hard to have the Bongolo Airport

December 2009- Installing
the first wind sock... Iwo Jima
Style!

(aka. Lebamba airport) in good shape for the inspectors from the civil aviation department in the country we serve in.  Some times it is a challenge to know all the expectations and standards we need to comply to, but we're happy to report that, for the last 6 years, we've kept the airport certified and open as one of the few public airports in Gabon.  This is no small feat!

Here are some of the pictures from this years work to keep the airstrip in good shape.  A big thanks to the workers running the backhoe and Captain Rob for his oversight.  Enjoy!

In front of the hangar looking West.  Previously a ditch had been running along this side of the runway for at least a third of the length.  Civil aviation said that it was too deep.

At the East end of the runway looking off the end.

From the Western half of the runway, looking East, back toward the hangar.  You can just make out a sliver of the shiny hangar roof just left of the picture's center.  The main work was filling the ditches along both sides of the runway and then blending it all in with the runway.

Here is the intersection of the ramp taxiway and the runway.  Again, a ditch needed filled in here.  This mound of dirt will be leveled out.

The view from above.