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Gulu Airport is a civilian and military airport in Northern Uganda. It is located , by road, northwest of the central business district of the city of Gulu, the largest metropolitan area in Northern Uganda. The coordinates of Gulu Airport are . This location is approximately , by air, north of Entebbe International Airport, Uganda's largest civilian and military airport.〔(Flight Distance Between Entebbe Airport And Gulu Airport With Map )〕 Gulu Airport serves the city of Gulu, with estimated population of 154,300 in 2011. It is one of the 13 upcountry airports under the administration of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority. It is also one of the five upcountry airports which are authorized to handle cross-border air traffic from or destined for neighboring countries, in an effort to promote tourism within Eastern Africa.〔(Gulu Airport Authorized to Handle East African Traffic )〕 Eagle Air has regular flights from Entebbe Airport on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Charter flights between Gulu and Moyo Airport, Arua Airport and Pakuba Airport are also occasionally flown. ==History== The runway was built in 1959 and has never seen any surface servicing since. The tarmac runway is heavily cracked but still suitable for small to medium aircraft. Hopes of upgrading the airport during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007 did not materialize. The airport grounds are fenced off completely to minimize animal movements onto the runway. Fugro's Airborne Survey division was contracted by the Government of Uganda to perform airborne geophysical mineral exploration surveys throughout Uganda between 2006 and 2009. To perform their duties in Northern Uganda, the company is basing two aircraft ( one Reims 406 and a Cessna 208) out of Gulu with daily low level (80 meters AGL) flights up to the Sudanese border. During the twenty one years of civil war between the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government, the Ugandan Airforce actively based from Gulu. Peace talks started in 2006, and as of 2009 all LRA rebel activity had been removed from Northern Uganda, and thus the Gulu military presence has been reduced to a sizeable ground force with no aircraft, based around the military hangarage on the left of runway 35. It is advisable to stay away from the military section of the airport at all times. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gulu Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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