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Entebbe International Airport is the principal international airport of Uganda. It is near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and about , by road, southwest of the central business district of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and its largest city.〔(Road Distance From Kampala To Entebbe International Airport with Map )〕 The coordinates of the airport are 00°02'41"N, 032°26'35"E (Latitude: 0.044721; 32.443055). The headquarters of the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda have been relocated to a new block off the airport highway.〔 Civil Aviation Authority. 17 December 2009. Retrieved on 28 January 2013. "Contact Information Head Office Entebbe International Airport P.O. Box 5536, Kampala"〕 ==History== The airport was constructed in 1928/1929: The first aircraft to use the new airfield were RAF Fairey IIIs of the Cairo-Cape flight which landed on the grass runway on 17 February 1929. Considerable extensions were planned, but for various reasons little was done until after the Second World War. In 1944-45 the main runway was bitumenized and extended to . Then on 10 November 1951 the airport was formally reopened after the facilities had been extended further: Runway 12/30 was now , in preparation for services by the de Havilland Comet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=News )〕 History was made on 7 February 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took her flight back to London via El Adem, Libya after being proclaimed Queen after the death of King George VI. In February 2015, the Government of South Korea, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency, gave the Government of Uganda a grant of USh27 billion (US$10 million) towards modernization of the airport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Entebbe International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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