El Jadida Airport

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El Jadida Airport( ICAO : GMMJ) was an airport serving the city of El Jadida, Morocco. [1]

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Google Earth Historical Imagery from 4/28/2002 shows a 1,524 metres (5,000 ft) grass runway 04/22. 07/13/2005 image shows a highway cut through, and the current satellite image [2] shows the area covered with streets and apartment blocks.

The surface of the airport measured 92ha and was transformed in 2008 into a real-estate development project by the firm CGI (subsidiary of the CDG fund) and a Marjane hypermarket was opened there in 2013. [3]

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References

  1. "El Jadida Airport closed". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  2. "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  3. "El Jadida: Un nouveau pôle urbain sur l'ancien aérodrome". L'Economiste. 15 September 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2014.