Gbadolite Airport
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Gbadolite Airport (French: Aéroport de Gbadolite) (IATA: BDT, ICAO: FZFD) is an airport serving Gbadolite, the capital of the Nord-Ubangi Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The airport is located at the village of Moanda, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southwest of Gbadolite.
The original runway was a single dirt strip and got used very rarely. Mobuto Sese-Seko added the extension specifically so he use it as a private airport for the Air France Concorde he chartered periodically for $400,000 a trip (well over a million today) when he went overseas. It wasn't much of an issue for a man who was estimated to have embezzled around $5 billion dollars of the country's national wealth.
The original runway was a single dirt strip and got used very rarely. Mobuto Sese-Seko added the extension specifically so he use it as a private airport for the Air France Concorde he chartered periodically for $400,000 a trip (well over a million today) when he went overseas. It wasn't much of an issue for a man who was estimated to have embezzled around $5 billion dollars of the country's national wealth.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbadolite_Airport
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Coordinates: 4°15'10"N 20°58'32"E
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