Map of Kindley Field Airport, in St. David's Island and Constellaton plane, January 1946.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 28.04.1975.
Face value: 20 cents of Bermudian dollars.
- Scott No. 331.
- StampWorld No. 312.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 337.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 308.
The
airfield, located west of the St. David's Island (northeast of the country),
was built between 1941 and 1943 for use as Kindley Field, a joint base of the
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and of the British Royal Air Force (RAF).
The RAF forces in Bermuda withdrew at the end of the war, but their local commander
remained in the service of the Bermuda government and converted the RAF
facilities into the Civil Air Terminal, operated by the local government under
the name of Bermuda International Airport. However, the U.S. Air Force
continued to operate at its facilities, which in 1970 were transferred to the
United States Navy, which operated it as a Naval Air Station until 1995. On
April 16, 2007 it was renamed LF Wade International Airport in honor of L.
Frederick Wade, leader of the Progressive Labor Party. Its international
acronyms are these: IATA: BDA; ICAO: TXKF. Before the airport was built, a
seaplane facility on Darrell Island was flown that closed in 1948.
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