List of eponyms of airports
It includes the name of the airport, the facility's location, and the person after whom the airport is named.
This is a list of eponymously named airports.
Current airports
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Former names and names of closed airports
- Astor Piazzolla International Airport, Mar del Plata, Argentina
- formerly Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina International Airport, changed in August, 2008
- Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq
- formerly Saddam International Airport, named for Saddam Hussein
- Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- formerly Haile Selassie I International Airport, named for Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, South Africa
- formerly D.F. Malan Airport, named for Daniel François Malan
- Clark International Airport, Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines
- formerly Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, named for Diosdado Macapagal
- Durban International Airport, Durban, South Africa
- formerly Louis Botha Airport, named for Louis Botha; renamed in 1995 and closed in 2010
- Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- closed, named for Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
- El Alto International Airport, La Paz, Bolivia
- formerly John F. Kennedy International Airport
- José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador
- formerly Simón Bolívar International Airport, named for Simón Bolívar
- Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- closed, named after two plutocrats Kai Ho and Au Tak
- Kimberley Airport, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa
- formerly B. J. Vorster Airport, named for B. J. Vorster
- Meigs Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- closed, named for Merrill C. Meigs
- Mati Airport, Mati City, Philippines
- formerly Imelda R. Marcos Airport
- OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa
- formerly Jan Smuts International Airport, named for Jan Smuts
- Reno–Tahoe International Airport
- formerly Cannon International Airport named for senator Howard W. Cannon
- Senai International Airport, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
- formerly Sultan Ismail International Airport
- Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, United States
- closed, named for Denver mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton
- Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- formerly Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, named for Chiang Kai-shek
- Velana International Airport, Maldives
- formerly Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, named for Ibrahim Nasir and renamed in 2017, after the family house name of Ibrahim Nasir
See also
- List of eponyms
- List of places named after people
- List of airports
References
- "Dallas, Texas Love Field Airport". Dallas-lovefield.com. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
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