| Lanseria International Airport | |
| Nativename: | Afrikaans: Lanseria Internasionale Lughawe |
| Iata: | HLA |
| Icao: | FALA |
| Type: | Private |
| Owner: | Consortium |
| City-Served: | Johannesburg |
| Location: | City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality |
| Hub: | |
| Elevation-F: | 4,520 |
| Elevation-M: | 1,377 |
| Coordinates: | -25.9386°N 27.9261°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Greater Johannesburg |
| Pushpin Label: | HLA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the Johannesburg area |
| R1-Number: | 07/25 |
| R1-Length-F: | 9,996 |
| R1-Length-M: | 3,047 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt (45abbr=onNaNabbr=on wide) |
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport that is situated north of Randburg and Sandton to the northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-300 and the airport was created to ease traffic congestion at OR Tambo International Airport.
It is located at the north-western edge of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (south-west of Centurion and Pretoria). Its entrance is on the R512 road (Pelindaba Road), which goes south to Randburg and north to the Hartbeespoort Dam.[1]
Lanseria Airport started out as a grass strip airfield in 1972, the brainchild of two Pretoria pilots: Fanie Haacke and Abe Sher. The land was originally bought by Krugersdorp and Roodepoort Municipality together with the Transvaal Peri-Urban Board and contracted to Lanseria Management Company on a 99-year lease since 1972.
The airport was officially opened by the Minister of Transport at the time, Hannes Rall, on 16 August 1974. Soon after its opening, Lanseria Airport hosted the Air Africa '75 (in 1975).
When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 he was flown to Johannesburg landing at Lanseria Airport.
On 15 November 2012, the airport was sold to a consortium consisting of Harith, an infrastructure development fund management company; the women's empowerment company Nozala; and the Government Employee Pension Fund, through the Public Investment Corporation.[2]
On 11 November 2013, the airport opened its new 45-meter-wide 07/25 Runway and also closed the existing 30-meter-wide 06/24 runway. Kulula was the first airline to land on the new runway.[3] [4]
Runway 07 is equipped with ILS CAT I and is directed at 047° east of true north. The single runway has a 1.5% gradient, sloping up towards the southwest end of the runway; despite this gradient, the preferred landing direction is from the southwest, landing on Runway 07, because the winds are usually northerly, blowing south.
| + Communications[5] | ||
| Tower | 124.000 MHz | |
|---|---|---|
| Ground | 121.650 MHz | |
| Apron | 122.850 MHz | |
| VOR/DME | 117.400 MHz | |
| ATIS | 127.650 MHz |
National Airways has its head office building on the airport property.[6]
Various maintenance and avionics companies are situated on the airport including Interjet Maintenance, MPT Maintenance, ExecuJet, Lanseria Jet centre and NAC, with various other smaller outfits. The maintenance facilities at Lanseria International Airport provide small to midsize aircraft maintenance mainly focused on corporate aircraft and small regional airliners, up to a Bombardier CRJ700 or similar.