Kabale Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Kabale Municipality | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kabale, Uganda | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5,850 ft / 1,783 m | ||||||||||
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Kabale Airport (ICAO: HUKB) is an airstrip serving Kabale,[4] a town in the Kabale District in the Western Region of Uganda. It is one of the 46 airports in the country.[5]
The airport is about 5 kilometres (3 mi) by road west of Kabale, on the Kabale-Kisoro Road.[6] It lies approximately 311 kilometres (193 mi) by air southwest of Entebbe International Airport, Uganda's largest civilian and military airport.[7]
As of January 2010, the airport was not under the administration of the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda.[8]
Facilities
The airport has a single unpaved runway. Aeronautical charts show the runway length at 610 metres (2,000 ft),[2] and satellite images indicate a maximum length of 1,400 metres (4,600 ft),[3] while a newspaper article stated the land set aside for the runway was 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi).[6]
References
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- Airstrip planned for Kabale. eTurboNews. 10 February 2010.
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