Camden Airstrip

Camden Airstrip
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Location	Couva, Trinidad

Camden Airstrip is a small airstrip in Couva, Trinidad. Crop dusting aircraft use this airstrip; drag racing also takes place on the airstrip.

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 Trinidad-Tobago airbridge.^[1] If successful, the airport would be upgraded to a full-scale international airport.

If upgraded, the airport will be the third International Airport on the islands after Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and the Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson International Airport in Tobago.^[2]

Operations

Briko Air Services is based at the field, operating non-passenger charters and training flights out of Camden. National Helicopter Services is also based at Camden, serving many of the offshore oil platforms.

References

↑ "Trinidad Express Newspapers: | AIRPORT FOR CENTRAL". Trinidadexpress.com. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
↑ Agile Telecom Ltd. and Xidemia (2007-12-14). "Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday". newsday.co.tt. Retrieved 2015-09-24.

Airports of Trinidad and Tobago

Civilian¹	Piarco International Airport Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson International Airport

Military	Camden Base

Heliports	Piarco International Airport Camden Base

Former	Carlsen Air Force Base Waller Air Force Base

¹ Air-traffic controlled.

Coordinates: 10°25′35″N 61°26′44″W / 10.426361°N 61.445672°W / 10.426361; -61.445672

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