<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History of Grenada International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The building of the airport, designed to replace the obsolete Pearls Airport on the north side of the island, was cited by U.S. President Ronald Reagan as evidence that the Grenadian government intended to allow it to be used as a waypoint for Soviet military aircraft en route to Cuba. He buttressed this claim with the evidence that it was being built, in part, by Cuban workers.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The unfinished airport was chosen as the jumping-off point for the invasion of Grenada by the United States in October 1983. The event that precipitated the U.S.-led invasion was not the construction of the airport but, rather, a violent coup in which Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed. The American justification for the invasion was the perceived threat to American medical students at St. George's University, whose campus is a short distance from the airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">At dawn on October 25, 1983, more than 500 Rangers from the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the United States Army 75th Ranger Regiment conducted a risky, low-altitude parachute assault onto the unfinished airport. Despite resistance from the Grenadian armed forces (PRA, the People's Revolutionary Army) and armed Cuban construction workers, the Rangers secured all of their objectives on the airfield quickly. The seizure of the airfield allowed United States Air Force C-141 transport planes to land, beginning at 2:05 p.m., and unload six battalions of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, the follow-on occupation force. After the invasion, Point Salines International Airport was completed with $19 million in American assistance and landed its first commercial passenger plane on Oct. 28, 1984. The airport was renamed for the late Prime Minister in 2009.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Group Transportation Grenada International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Runway:</strong> The runway system consists of two runways (10 and 28) on one strip, both with an LCN-86 asphalt surface. The runways are equipped with airfield lighting systems for night operations. They have a length of 2,743m, are 45m wide, and have an elevation of 12 m. They are situated between the following reference points:</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>RunwayMission statement: </strong> To provide safe, secure, efficient, and profitable world-class airport facilities and services, consistent with international standards, through a highly skilled and committed workforce in support of the economic development of Grenada.</p>
<p><img class="img-fluid p-lg-0 rounded w-100" title="Grenada   Airport" src="../../../main/img/airport/grena/1.webp" alt="Grenada  Airport" width="950px" height="500px"></p>