Margaret Ekpo International Airport

Margaret Ekpo International Airport (DNCA) is a medium airport in Calabar, Nigeria. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code DNCA or IATA code CBQ. It sits in Africa.

Margaret Ekpo International Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

Margaret Ekpo International Airport sits near sea level at 210 ft.

Local operations run on Africa/Lagos. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

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Margaret Ekpo International Airport, also known as Calabar Airport, is an airport serving Calabar, the capital of the Cross River State in Nigeria. The airport is named after Margaret Ekpo, who was one of Nigeria's pioneering feminists and anticolonial activists. It was commissioned in 1983 by Alhaji Shehu Shagari, then president of Nigeria.