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Apart from more runways and a few refurbishments, not much has changed about Wilson Airport, which was named after a prominent woman, writes ALLAN OLINGO
The Wilson Airport was originally called the Nairobi Aerodrome and had just two runways back 1933. The imperial airways ran the airmail service as the main use for the airport and passenger services didn’t start until after the Second World War in 1944. The name was changed to Wilson Airport in 1962 after Florence Kerr Wilson, who founded one of the first airlines in Kenya — Wilson Airways — in 1929.
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