Xangongo Airport
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Xangongo Airport is an airport
near Xangongo
, Angola
. It was built by the Cubans in 1988 as a forward airbase during the last campaign against apartheid South Africa in the Angolan Civil War.
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
near Xangongo
Xangongo
Xangongo is a town in Cunene Province, Angola. It is located at around . It was also the site of considerable fighting in the war for the independence of Namibia and the Angolan Civil War.-Xangongo and SWAPO:...
, Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
. It was built by the Cubans in 1988 as a forward airbase during the last campaign against apartheid South Africa in the Angolan Civil War.