Nouméa Magenta Airport
Nouméa Magenta Airport
Nouméa Magenta Airport (French: Aéroport de Nouméa-Magenta; IATA: GEA, ICAO: NWWM) is a domestic airport on the main island of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The airport is 3 km (2 mi) east-northeast of the city centre of Nouméa, the capital, approximately 38 km (24 mi) southeast of La Tontouta International Airport. In 2017, 428,679 passengers used the airport. Air Calédonie has its head office on the airport property. In November 2025, the government of New Caledonia announced that the airport will close in March 2026, with all flights shifted to La Tontouta Airport.
Location
22.258°S, 166.473°E · 3 m s. n. m. (10 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2
Tower
ATIS (automatic information)
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
1931: First biplane flight on the beach in Magenta, located on the east coast of Nouméa.
1934: Creation of L'Aéro-club Calédonien.
1942: Arrival of the Poppy Force, a US Army division commanded by General Alexander Patch, making New Caledonia one of the main Pacific airbases for the US Army. A military airfield is built along the beach in Magenta by Seabees of Naval Construction Battalion 11 on the site of a former racetrack.
1956: Opening of the airfield to civilian air traffic, two years after the creation of Transpac, the first domestic New Caledonian airline and forerunner of Air Calédonie, which has regular flights between Nouméa, the Isle of Pines and the Loyalty Islands.
1970s: Construction of the first terminal, with a capacity of 100,000 people.
2001: Completion and opening of the new terminal, increasing capacity to over 300,000 people.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Nouméa Magenta Airport (GEA). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GEA
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“Nouméa Magenta Airport (GEA).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GEA. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
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BibTeX
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