Grootfontein Air Force Base

The Grootfontein Air Force Base (IATA: GFY, ICAO: FYGF) is an air base of the Namibian Air Force in Grootfontein, a town in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. The air base is about 4 km (2 mi) south of the center of Grootfontein.^[4]

Grootfontein Air Force Base
IATA: GFY ICAO: FYGF
Summary
Airport type	Military
Owner	Namibian Air Force
Location	Grootfontein, Namibia
Commander	Group Captain Hillary Lilungwe Sisamu
Elevation AMSL	4,636 ft / 1,413 m
Coordinates	19°36′07″S 18°07′21″E
Map
GFY Location of air base in Namibia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 3,560 11,680 Asphalt 17/35 1,040 3,412 Asphalt
Source: WAD[1] GCM[2] Google Maps[3]

It was formerly an air base for the South African Air Force. It was also the headquarters of the Namibian Air Force until these were moved to Karibib Air Force Base in 2016.^[5]

The Grootfontein non-directional beacon (Ident: GF) and VOR-DME (Ident: GFV) are located on the field.^[6][7][8]

Commanding officers

Grootfontein Air Force Base

From	Commanding Officer	To
Unknown date	Colonel Paavo Kamanya	Unknown date
Unknown date	Group Captain Abed Hihepa	1 March 2018
1 March 2018	Group Captain Mackenzie Manfred Tjivera	28 July 2018
28 July 2018	Group Captain Hillary Lilungwe Sisamu[9]	Incumbent

Image gallery

• 
  Entrance gate to the Grootfontein Logistics Base, April 1989.
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  A C-130 Hercules aircraft takes off in the distance as a section of a Military Airlift Command C-5B Galaxy aircraft, foreground, is silhouetted by the morning sun at Grootfontein Logistics Base.
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  British Bedford 4x4 being loaded from a military aircraft.
• 
  Namibian workers watch operations following the landing of a Military Airlift Command C-5B Galaxy aircraft at Grootfontein Logistics Base.

See also

• Transport in Namibia
• List of airports in Namibia