FALA is the ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization] code for Lanseria. Every airport in the world has an unique ICAO code. The IATA Code for Lanseria is HLA.

Lanseria Airport started out as a grass strip airfield in 1972, the brainchild of two Pretoria pilots – Fanie Haacke and Abe Sher. The land was originally bought by Krugersdorp & Roodepoort Municipality together with the Transvaal Peri-Urban Board and contracted to Lanseria Management Company on a 99-year lease since 1972.

The airport was officially opened by the Minister of Transport at the time, Hannes Rall, on 16 August 1974. Soon after its opening, Lanseria Airport hosted the Air Africa '75 [in 1975].

When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 he was flown to Johannesburg and landed at Lanseria Airport.

On 15 November 2012 the airport was sold to a consortium consisting of Harith, an infrastructure development fund management company; the women's empowerment company Nozala; and the Government Employee Pension Fund, through the Public Investment Corporation.^[1]

On 11 November 2013 the airport opened its new 45-meter-wide 07/25 Runway and also closing the existing 30-meter-wide 06/24 runway. Kulula was the first carrier to land on the new runway.

Although the cache is located inside the airport parking area access is FREE for the first 40 minutes. If you cannot find the cache in this time frame then you will be required to pay the required parking fee of R15-00 per hour thereafter.