Camden Airstrip

Camden Airstrip is a small airstrip in Couva, Trinidad. Crop dusting aircraft use this airstrip; drag racing also takes place on the airstrip. The Camden (Field) Auxiliary Air Base was established as an emergency airstrip. It included one paved 3,000 ft (910 m) x 150 ft (46 m) runway with extensive taxiways and dispersed camouflaged parking bays for USAAC, USN and RN. It was defended by US Army infantry and AAA units.

Camden Airstrip
Summary
ServesCouva
LocationCouva, Trinidad and Tobago
Time zoneAST (UTC-4:00)
 • Summer (DST)not observed (UTC-4:00)
Coordinates10.426361°N 61.445672°W / 10.426361; -61.445672
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
10/28 3,000 914 Asphalt

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

Aerial World Service Ltd https://web.archive.org/web/20161124102334/https://aerialworldservicesltd.com/ A state of the art flight school that offers training from private pilot, all the way through to commercial pilot on technically advanced aircraft. They also offer private flights.

National Helicopter Services Limited NHSL

University of Trinidad and Tobago UTT operates an aviation campus.

References
  1. "Trinidad Express Newspapers: | Airport for Central". Trinidadexpress.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  2. Agile Telecom Ltd. and Xidemia (2007-12-14). "Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday". newsday.co.tt. Retrieved 2015-09-24.



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