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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | ACSA South African Air Force | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Focus city for | CemAir | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,457 ft / 1,358 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°05′38″S 26°18′14″E / 29.09389°S 26.30389°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | airports.co.za/airports/bram-fischer | ||||||||||||||
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  BFN Location in the Free State  BFN BFN (South Africa)  BFN BFN (Africa) | |||||||||||||||
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Bram Fischer International Airport (IATA: BFN, ICAO: FABL) (Afrikaans: Bram Fischer Internasionale Lughawe) is a primary airport located in Bloemfontein, the capital city of the Free State province of South Africa. The runways are shared with AFB Bloemspruit.
In November 2012, the South African government announced that the airport's name was to be changed to Bram Fischer International Airport; the official renaming was performed by Pres. Jacob Zuma on Thursday, 13 December 2012.[4]
- ^ Bloemfontein Airport Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine - official site
- ^ "Airport information for FABL". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF. - ^ Airport information for BFN at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ "SA: Statement by Free State Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Bloemfontein International Airport renamed Bram Fischer International Airport and Petrus Steyn renamed Mamafubedu (13/11/2012)". Polity.org.za. Retrieved 8 September 2017.