Cape Winelands Airport
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Cape Winelands Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex-South African Air Force airfield built circa 1943, and used to operate Lockheed Ventura bombers. It is located approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northeast of Durbanville. It has been in private ownership since 1993.
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Airport type | Private | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Cape Winelands Airport | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Private | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Durbanville and surrounds | ||||||||||||||
Location | 13 km (8.1 mi) NE of Durbanville, on Lichtenburg Road | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 400 ft / 122 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°46′10″S 18°44′00″E | ||||||||||||||
Website | http://capewinelands.aero | ||||||||||||||
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Lights are available on request from CTFTC. The Cape Talk Radio AM transmission mast is located 5nm N of FAWN on frequency 567KHz, as well as 828KHz Magic Radio 8nm NNE of the field. Both of these provide ADF/NDB training. |
Cape Winelands Airport serves as a general flying airfield, and is a favourite for flight training in the Cape Town area. Most of the fixed wing and helicopter schools, and Air Mercy Services' Pilatus PC-12 from Cape Town International (FACT) and Morningstar airfield (Morningstar Flight Academy) also visit Cape Winelands Airport for circuit and emergency training. Private and company aircraft sometimes pick up or drop passengers at Cape Winelands Airport .
The largest aircraft to have landed at Cape Winelands Airport was as of 22 August 2017 a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Call sign 5X-UCF, made several landings. Quite a few advertisements and movies have also been filmed on location at Cape Winelands Airport.