<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Gustaf III Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Both the airport and the island's main town of Gustavia are named after King Gustav III of Sweden,under whom Sweden obtained the island from France in 1784 (it was sold back to France in 1878). In 1984, the Swedish Minister of Communications, Hans Gustafsson, inaugurated the terminal building of the Gustaf III Airport. In 2015 the airport got the name Aeroport de Saint-Barthelemy-Remy-de-Haenen, named after Remy de Haenen, an aviation pioneer and later mayor of Saint Barthelemy. The airport is served by small regional commercial aircraft and charters.The short airstrip is at the base of a gentle slope ending directly on the beach. The arrival descent is extremely steep over the hilltop traffic circle; departing planes fly right over the heads of sunbathers .</p>
<p class="blog-para">Most visiting aircraft carry fewer than twenty passengers, such as the Twin Otter, a common sight throughout the northern West Indies and as a curiosity, the Canadian-built de Havilland Dash 7 is the largest aircraft ever allowed to operate at this airport.The airport is located at the island's second-largest town, St. Jean. The most common aircraft flying in for commercial service are the Pilatus PC-12, Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, and Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Gustaf III Airport also known as Saint Barthelemy Airport, sometimes as St. Jean Airport, is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Both the airport and the island&rsquo;s main town of Gustavia are named for King Gustav III of Sweden, under whom Sweden obtained the island from France in 1784 (it was sold back to France in 1878). In 1984, Swedish Minister of Communications, Hans Gustafsson, inaugurated the terminal building of the Gustaf III Airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport serves as a gateway to the island, mainly through the Juliana airport in nearby Dutch Sint Maarten, where flights arrive daily from USA and Europe as well. Usually, the flight from there to Gustaf II Airport takes around 10 minutes.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airliners that fly to Saint Barthelemy are Winair, Air Cara&iuml;bes, and St Barth Commuter, which is the only commercial local airline based on the island of Saint Barthelemy. The airport is served by small regional commercial aircraft and charters.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Most visiting aircraft carry fewer than twenty passengers, such as the Twin Otter, a common sight throughout the northern West Indies and as a curiosity, the Canadian-built de Havilland Dash 7 is the largest aircraft ever allowed to operate this airport.</p>
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