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Sambailo Airport

airport in Guinea

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7408985 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sambailo Airport (IATA: SBI, ICAO: GUSB) is an airport serving Koundara, a town in the Boké Region of Guinea. It is 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) northwest of Koundara, at the village of Sambailo.

The Sambailo non-directional beacon (Ident: SB) is located on the field.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Sambailo Airport” as airport in Guinea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sambailo, Airport and airport.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sambailo, Airport and airport providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Sambailo Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Guinea” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7408985. Authority coordinates are 12.573, -13.358. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sambailo Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sambailo Airport primary sources, Sambailo Airport archive and Sambailo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sambailo Airport”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sambailo Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.