RBAGMME

Rabat-Salé Airport

Rabat, Morocco · Africa

Africa Africa/Casablanca

41direct destinations

12airlines

1runway

3,500 mLongest runway

Salé Airport or Rabat–Salé Airport (IATA: RBA, ICAO: GMME) is an international airport located in the city of Salé, also serving Rabat, the capital city of Morocco and of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region. It is a joint-use public and military airport, also hosting the First Air Base of the Royal Moroccan Air Force. The airport is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) east-northeast of Rabat and about 90 km (56 mi) northeast of Casablanca.

Location

34.051°N, 6.752°O · 84 m s. n. m. (276 ft)

General data

CountryMorocco

CityRabat

IATA codeRBA

ICAO codeGMME

Coordinates34.051°N, 6.752°O

Elevation84 m s. n. m. (276 ft)

Time zoneAfrica/Casablanca

Runways1

Longest runway3,500 m

OperatorAirports of Morocco

Direct destinations41

Official website

Runways · 1

03/21

Length3,500 m11,483 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 2

Tower

118.300

Approach

118.900

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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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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

During World War II, the airport was used as a military airfield by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces. The 319th Bombardment Group briefly flew Martin B-26 Marauders from the airfield between 25 April and 1 June 1943. After the Americans moved out their combat units in mid-1943, the airport was used as a stopover and landing field for Air Transport Command aircraft on the Casablanca-Algiers transport route. When the war ended, control of the airfield was returned to civil authorities. During the early years of the Cold War, the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) used the airport as headquarters for its 5th and 316th Air Divisions. Various SAC aircraft, primarily B-47 Stratojets and KC-97 Stratofreighters used the airport until the United States Air Force withdrew from Morocco in 1957.

Airlines operating here · 12

Other airlines with direct routes

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Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Rabat-Salé Airport (RBA). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RBA

MLA

“Rabat-Salé Airport (RBA).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RBA. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Rabat-Salé Airport (RBA).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RBA.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Rabat-Salé Airport (RBA). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RBA (Accessed: 23 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_rba,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Rabat-Salé Airport (RBA)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RBA},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RBA}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-23},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}

Wikipedia

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