{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Airport","name":"Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility","iataCode":"NKW","icaoCode":null,"city":"Diego Garcia","country":"IO","airportType":"medium_airport","cargoCapable":false,"cargoRank":null,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":-7.31327,"longitude":72.411102},"elevationMeters":3,"runwayLengthMeters":null,"description":"Few places carry as much Cold War cargo history as this remote atoll. Diego Garcia became a joint UK–US military outpost in the early 1970s after the Chagossian population was removed, and it has functioned ever since as a strategic basing and logistics site for the United States in the Indian Ocean – prepositioned naval supply ships in the lagoon and long-range bomber deployments, not commercial freight. The base sits roughly 1,700 km south of India, with no civilian access and no customs clear","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/diego-garcia-naval-support-facility-airport-nkw","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/diego-garcia-naval-support-facility-airport-nkw","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility · (IATA: NKW) · Diego Garcia, IO · 3 m"}