Who remembers this? (Old Zanzibar Airport)

Who remembers this? (Old Zanzibar Airport)

Post by Hazel - Alwyn - Joe & Ginny

Is it still there ? or did a New Modern one replace and erase it ?

I first took off from it July 1958 with Anita Lobo Geroge Fernandes and the rest of the Zanziba students - for Nairobi .. and then after an over night to Entebbe ... Return Dec . ...back again January ..

Did this one last time after Christmas 63 took off January 7 1964 never to see the airport or Zanzibar again..

Went by road from Kampala to Nairobi to Mombasa end May 1964 to begining a New Life then ten years later N N W to the USA

Alwyn Mendes wrote:

I sure do Zanzibar Airport the Aircraft was a bi plane Domino my Dad used to commute from Zanzibar to Pemba.
Rene Carvalho’s uncle used to run the bar on the top level.
Here’s where I caught a glimpse of Sir Stanley Mathews
He was in transit from South Africa to the UK
I remember it was 4 miles from town

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Joe De Lord wrote:

Who remembers this?

Seeing the old Zanzibar airport with an aircraft on the apron triggered my memory to add my comments...

After SJCS (class of 1944), I was employed by Smith Mackenzie (shipping B.I & Union-Castle, merchandise and spirits).

When the firm were appointed agents for East African Airways, they set up a team to attend to the planes 4 times a day, and senior employee Francis Nazareth and I were selected - I was just 15 and excited!

We went to the airport separately - early morning, midday, early and late afternoon.

The service started from Nairobi, via Mombasa, Tanga, Zanzibar, and terminating in Dar-es-Salaam.

Transport was provided by Abdalla 'Mzungu'.

The type of aircraft used were De Havilland Rapide (9 seater), then H.S. Dominie (14 seater), then the Dakota (32 seater), followed by the Fokker Friendship (over 100) when I left.

The pilots over the period were Capt. Kuhle, Morris, Pearce, Noon, Strange, Allison.

In those early days, passengers were weighed individually on a scale and details entered on the manifest and passenger list, checked by the pilot before take-off.

The Airport Superintendent was Ali Khalifa, and I remember Michael Carvalho had a ship in the building.

Joe De Lord

Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (Swahili: Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Abeid Amani Karume, IATA: ZNZ, ICAO: HTZA) is the main airport in the Zanzibar Archipelago located on Unguja Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Zanzibar City, the capital of Zanzibar, and has flights to East Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. It was previously known as Kisauni Airport and Zanzibar International Airport. It was renamed in 2010 in honour of Abeid Amani Karume, the island's first president.

Terminals

Terminal 1 is an inactive terminal that was used during the British protectorate of Zanzibar. This is a small building found on the northern side of terminal 2 and currently used as the airport office.

Terminal 2 is active for all landing aircraft. A new shelter^{[clarification needed]} on the entrance of the airport has been put in place.^{[citation needed]}

Construction of the third terminal started in January 2011 by the Chinese Beijing Construction Engineering Group. A new apron of 100,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft) will replace the existing 21,000 square metres (230,000 sq ft). The project is estimated to cost about US$70.4 million. On completion, it will have the capacity to serve up to 1.5 million passengers per year.^[3] The new terminal was expected to be operational in 2014, but construction work delayed due to financial and technical reasons.^{[citation needed]} The new terminal was inaugurated in September 2020 and started operation in early 2021.^{[citation needed]} Terminal 3 serves international flights while terminal 2 serves both domestic and some international flights.