Koumac Airport
Koumac Airport is an airport in Koumac, New Caledonia.
History
The airstrip was expanded during World War II in order to support a fleet of B-17 bombers by the 810th American aviation battalion, which was one of the first two all-black engineering battalions of the war. The airstrip was used as a base from which targets in the Solomon Islands were bombed.An Air Loyauté flight was hit by a projectile while landing at Koumac in 2010.
In 2023, the airport was used as a base for practice by a joint operation called Exercise Croix du Sud 2023 involving the militaries of 19 nations to prepare for a possible situation in which evacuation of the area due to war or natural disaster is ever necessary.