Cayenne – Félix Éboué Airport (French: Aéroport de Cayenne – Félix Éboué, IATA: CAY, ICAO: SOCA) is French Guiana's main international airport.
It is located near the commune of Matoury, 13 kilometres (8 mi) southwest of French Guiana's capital city of Cayenne.
[7] The first airfield at Cayenne, called "Gallion," was built in 1943 in ten months by the U.S. Army Air Corps as a base allowing bombers to reach Africa.
Christiane Taubira, then-Member of the National Assembly of France for Guiana, requested in 1999 that the name be changed.
It was finally renamed Félix Éboué Airport in 2012, the change becoming official in January of that year.