West End Airport
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West End Airport is an airport that serves Grand Bahama
. While smaller than the other airport on the island located in Freeport
, this airport has two runways each 2438 metre in length. This airport was recently re-opened and serves mostly cargo aircraft. The main runway is runway 10 and is the westernmost runway in the entire Bahamian archipelago.
Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama is one of the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying off the state of Florida. Grand Bahama is the fifth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays...
. While smaller than the other airport on the island located in Freeport
Freeport, Bahamas
Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of Grand Bahama of the North-west Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 50,000 acres Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of...
, this airport has two runways each 2438 metre in length. This airport was recently re-opened and serves mostly cargo aircraft. The main runway is runway 10 and is the westernmost runway in the entire Bahamian archipelago.