AIRFIELD RENOVATION NGIVA AIRFIELD, ANGOLA (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: August 8, 1983
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AIRFIELD RENOVATION
NGIVA AIRFIELD, ANGOLA (SWN)
NPIC/IEG (8/83)
8 AUGUST 1983
1. SIGNIFICANCE: SINCE EARLY JULY, THE SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE
BEEN REPAIRING THE RUNWAY AND PARKING APRON AT NGIVA
AIRFIELD, THEIR PRIME LOGISTICS AND STAGING BASE IN
SOUTHERN ANGOLA. (SWN)
2. REMARKS: I (APPROXIMATELY 60 PERCENT OF THE
2,500-METER BLACKTOP RUNWAY HAD BEEN REPAIRED AND
RESURFACED. WORK WAS CONTINUING ON REPAIRING THE REMAINDER
OF THE RUNWAY AND THE LARGE PARKING APRON. A LARGE
RECTANGULAR AREA HAS BEEN CLEARED OF VEGETATION AND GRADED
ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE RUNWAY; HOWEVER, THE PURPOSE OF
THIS CLEARING CANNOT BE DETERMINED AT THIS TIME. ALTHOUGH
AIRCRAFT INCLUDING C-47 AND KUDU WERE ABLE TO USE THE
AIRFIELD DURING THE EARLY PHASE OF REPAIR ACTIVITY, ONLY
PUMA AND ALOUETTE HELICOPTERS HAVE BEEN SEEN HERE SINCE
MID-JULY. (SWN)
ANALYSTS COMMENTS: NGIVA AIRFIELD, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY
25 NM NORTH OF THE ANGOLA-NAMIBIA BORDER, HAS PROBABLY BEEN
UNDER SOUTH AFRICAN CONTROL SINCE THE CONCLUSION OF
OPERATION PROTEA IN SEPTEMBER 1981. SOUTH AFRICAN AIRCRAFT
AND HELICOPTERS HAVE BEEN SEEN HERE REGULARLY SINCE
DECEMBER 1981, HOWEVER, THERE HAS BEEN NO OBSERVATION OF
ANY TRANSPORT LARGER THAN A C-47. UPON COMPLETION OF THE
CURRENT REPAIR PROGRAM, LARGER TRANSPORTS SUCH AS THE C-130
AND C-160 (TRANSALL) MAY UTILIZE THIS AIRFIELD.
IRONICALLY, THE PATCHED AREAS ON THE RUNWAY ARE REPAIR
EFFORTS FOR CRATERS CAUSED BY SET CHARGES DETONATED BY
SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES WHILE WITHDRAWING FROM PARTICIPATION
IN THE ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR IN MARCH 1976. (SWN)
COORDINATES 17-02-40S 015-41-25E (S)
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