Page 1 of 12 25 May 2009 No. 857 DEV Published biweekly – available by annual subscription only – www.momberger.com Editorial office / Subscriptions Phone: +1 519 833 4642, e-mail:
[email protected] Managing Editor / Publisher: Martin Lamprecht
[email protected] News Editor: Paul Ellis
[email protected] – Founding Editor: Manfred Momberger Copyright © 2009 – Momberger Airport Information by Air Trans Source Inc. – published since 1973 AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT (Southern & Western Africa) CONGO (Brazzaville) At Maya-Maya Airport in Brazzaville, Egis Avia designs the renovation of the existing movement areas, a new runway and its related taxiways, and the extension of the military and commercial aprons. SGEC-Congo (Vinci Group), who signed a ‘design and build’ contract with the Délégation générale des Grands Travaux of the Congo (sponsor), sub-contracted to Egis Avia the design part, aiming at refurbishing the movement areas of Brazzaville’s Airport and building a new runway. While maintaining the former runway in operations, the project includes a new 3300 x 45 m runway within the current airport limits and the associated taxiway. In order to increase the airport’s availability and performances, this Egis Avia project includes the dimensioning of Cat. 1 ILS platforms (glidepath and localiser) for this new runway. Additionally, a new military parking area and the associated taxiway will be constructed to accommodate ten parking stands for Mi24, Mi8, Mi 17 helicopters as well as two modular stands for B.747-400 or Il-76 cargo aircraft. To cope with this new runway capacity, the project includes the extension of the commercial apron to a surface area of 196 000 m² as well as the marking of the new aeronautical areas.