Francisco Mendes International Airport was an airport located on Santiago Island in Cape Verde. It was opened in 1961. It was located about 2 km east of central Praia in the southeastern part of the island of Santiago. After Cape Verdean independence, the airport was named after Francisco Mendes, a Guinea-Bissau independence activist and that country's first Prime Minister.

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Francisco Mendes International Airport
IATA: RAI ICAO: GVFM
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aeroportos e Segurança Aérea (ASA)
Location	Praia, Cape Verde
Opened	1961
Closed	October 2005
Coordinates	14.9261°N 23.4948°W / 14.9261; -23.4948

History

On 28 September 1998, a TACV de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (registered D4-CAX) carrying Carlos Veiga, then Prime Minister of Cape Verde, 18 other passengers and three crew members crash-landed at the airport. There was one fatality (a bodyguard of the prime minister) and four people were injured.[1]

In late 2005, the airport was deactivated, and replaced by the new Praia International Airport (since 2012 Nelson Mandela International Airport).

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[es] Aeropuerto Internacional Francisco Mendes

[fr] Ancien aéroport international Francisco-Mendes