Ndola

Zambia's Ndola airport in the Itawa suburb of the city officially became a civilian airport in the 1950s after first being used as a military base.

Ndola airport was renamed in 2011 in honour of Simon Kapwepwe, Zambia's former vice president. In late 2021, the Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport moved its operations to its current location adjacent to the Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial from its previous location in Ndola's Itawa suburb.^[1]

The new airport was engineered by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC International) at a cost of $397 million.

The old airport in the Itawa suburb is no-longer a commercial airport and now belongs to the Zambian Air Force. On 30 July 2021, President Edgar Lungu gave the old airport location a name, Peter Zuze Air Force Base, named after Zambia's first indigenous air commander.^[2]

References

[1] "Zambia: Airlines to shift operations to new airport in Ndola Oct. 7"

[2] "President Lungu renames old Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Inter. Airport to Peter Zuze Air Force Base"

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