Margaret Ekpo International Airport (IATA: CBQ, ICAO: DNCA), 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 feminist and anticolonial activists. It was commissioned in 1983 by Alhaji Shehu Shagari, then president of Nigeria.^[4]

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Margaret Ekpo International Airport Calabar Airport
IATA: CBQ ICAO: DNCA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
Serves	Calabar, Nigeria
Elevation AMSL	210 ft / 64 m
Coordinates	4°58′33″N 8°20′50″E
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CBQ Location of the airport in Nigeria
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03/21 2,450 8,038 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 189,908 Passenger change 14–15 6.9%
Sources: FAAN[1] WAD[2] GCM[3]

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These data show number of passengers movements into the airport, according to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria's Aviation Sector Summary Reports.

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Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Passengers	136,153	167,767	207,542	273,586	316,736	281,935	153,068	206,168	198,157	204,036	189,908
Growth (%)	4.40%	23.22%	23.71%	31.82%	15.77%	10.99%	45.71%	34.69%	3.89%	2.97%	6.92%
Source: Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Aviation Sector Reports (2010-2013,[5] 2014,[6] Q3-Q4 of 2015,[7] and Q1-Q2 of 2016,[8])

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