Sigiriya Airport (IATA: GIU, ICAO: VCCS) is an air force base and domestic airport located in central Sri Lanka.

[1] Located near the city of Dambulla, the airport is also known as SLAF Sigiriya.

[2] Sigiriya Airport was first opened in 1942 as an airfield established by the Royal Air Force during World War II.

A number of RAF squadrons (8 (1945),[3] 160 (1943-44),[4] 200 (1944-45),[5] 203 (1944-45),[6] 354 (1944)[7]) and other units were stationed at the airfield during and immediately after the war.

[8] With the end of the war, and subsequently no use for the airfield it was abandoned by the RAF in 1946.