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Domestic Airports in the East to be expanded
The government has taken measures to develop the domestic airports in the Eastern Province. Accordingly the domestic airports in the Ampara, Batticaloa and Trincomalee districts will be developed facilitating them to handle landing of larger aircrafts.
These measures have been taken to facilities the visiting Commonwealth Heads of States to tour the Eastern Province. Sri Lanka is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2013 and it will bring the leaders of 54 member countries of the Commonwealth to the country.
The runways of the three domestic airports will be extended under the project. Trincomalee airport is to be developed to handle military and civil aircrafts separately as well.
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will be the largest international event to be held in Sri Lanka with the participation of a large number of Heads of States after the 5th Summit of the Non Aligned Movement held in Sri Lanka in 1976 under the patronage of the then Sri Lankan Prime Minister Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike. (niz)
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SLAF Station Iranamadu
Lot of development work taking place at SLAF Iranamadu.
Perhaps the SLAF Katunayake air base operations will be moved here, which would give plenty of space for Katunayake international airport expansion.
Images from: http://airforce.lk/news.php?news=1068Comment
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wishful thinking! Truth is SLAF aint goin nowhere!
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I don't want the SLAF to go anywhere either, the Katunayake air base has a significant historical role and should be preserved.
However i think everyone would prefer a "down grading" of the air base.
Keeping vital assets of the nation, such as the fighter aircraft, transport craft, helicopters, ordinance and Military hanger/engineering facilities in public view has massive security implications by itself.
Moving the base facilities and functions to Iranamadu has many many many advantages in terms of defence and LONG term security of the nation (to elaborate this point moving the air base to Iranamadu will attract a lot of people to that location) the benefits go beyond the straight forward military presence and are in the long term a massive advantage.Comment
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What I think is that SLAF KAT has been there since the British and it is a Iconic Aerodrome for SLAF since its creation. So they might keep it there and also the No-02 fighter command is there too which is a strategical importance for the country's security moving the SLAF with the fighter squadrons to RAT will be a issue since especially the Kaffir's and the Mig's require at-least a 2mile long runway for takeoff and landing. already the Mi-24's are stationed in higuraggoda which is covering the northern sector in an emergency. putting another runway will be a great idea but removing the SLAF from there will be an issue when it comes to it's inventory and their operations.Comment
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You can see the Katunayake expressway. This was filmed in January 2012, so you can see the progress in construction.
Katunayake expressway is around 3:20 minute mark.
Bonus: You can see Kfir fighter planes nicely lined up in a whats a lovely shot between 7:00-9:00 minute mark.
Camera is a bit shakey.
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New security system implemented at Sri Lanka's airport to identify criminals - http://www.colombopage.com/archive_1...43275089CH.phpComment
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Hambantota Airport videos. Looks very good, i like the design, its unique.
However i highly doubt it will be finished by November this year.
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HTT has expansion built into it's design. Two concourses have been planned to be added in the near future as traffic volumes demand.
Full length paralell taxiway will be built to as part of the expansion.
Don't know if they will build a second runway, though their is plenty of space for that if needed in the future.
The current completed runway is supposed to be the longest in Asia or something like thatLast edited by Praetorian; 29-07-2012, 01:43 PM.Comment
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any idea what will be the numbers given to the runway at hambantota airportComment
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