Francisco Mendes International Airport
Francisco Mendes International Airport | |
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| Summary | |
| Airport type | Defunct |
| Operator | Aeroportos e Segurança Aérea (ASA) |
| Location | Praia, Cape Verde |
| Opened | 1961 |
| Closed | 6 October 2005 |
| Coordinates | 14°55′34″N 23°29′41″W / 14.9261°N 23.4948°W |
Francisco Mendes International Airport (IATA: RAI, ICAO: GVFM) was an airport located on Santiago Island in Cape Verde. It was opened in 1961. It was located about 2 km (1.2 mi) east of central Praia in the southeastern part of the island of Santiago. After Cape Verdean independence, the airport was named after Francisco Mendes, a Guinea-Bissau independence activist and that country's first Prime Minister.