Fisantekraal Airfield

Fisantekraal Airfield is an ex-South African Air Force airfield built circa 1943, and used to operate Lockheed Ventura bombers. It is located approximately 13km northeast of Durbanville It has been in private ownership since 1993. The ICAO reference code for Fisantekraal is FAFK.Fisantekraal Airfield serves as a general flying airfield, and is a favourite for flight training in the Cape Town area. Most of the fixed wing and helicopter schools, and Air Mercy Services' Pilatus PC-12 from Cape Town International (FACT) and Morningstar airfield (Morningstar Flight Academy) also visit Fisantekraal for circuit and emergency training. Private and company aircraft sometimes pick up or drop passengers at Fisantekraal.The largest aircraft to have landed at FAFK was a Douglas DC-3 of Lush Aviation, however as of the 22nd of August 2017 a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Call sign 5X-UCF, made several landings. Quite a few advertisements and movies have also been filmed on location at FAFK.HistoryLocated on a 150 ha site it was built for use by the South African Air Force, circa 1943. Originally, there were four runways. Only two are still in use: RWY23/05 and RWY14/32. The old taxiways and other runways are no longer used, but are still visible from overhead. The airfield was transferred to the local municipality sometime in the 1960s, and it was sold to a private owner in 1993.Aerodrome and airspace informationFisantekraal airspace is uncontrolled Class G and has a 5 nm radius with its own radio frequency of 131.1 MHz, callsign Fisantekraal Traffic. Joining altitude is restricted to 2000 ft AMSL by the Cape Town TMA sector A that is above Fisantekraal. There is also the Cape Town CTR that is to the southwest of the field approximately 3.5 nm.