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DNKNKANMajor airport

Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport

Kano, Nigeria

Elevation
1,562 ft
Runways
2
Longest
10,831 ft
Position
12.046, 8.524
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Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

06240523N1 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
DNKNN
Nothing else in range.
Nothing else with an ICAO code inside fifty miles.

By the numbers

  • 18,871 ft

    Runway, all told

    3.1 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 9th

    Longest in Nigeria

    of 29 airfields in the country

  • 627th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 7th

    Highest in Nigeria

    1,562 ft above sea level

  • 74 nm

    Nearest airfield

    DNZA, bearing 222

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
06/2410,831 ft197 ftAsphaltYes
05/238,040 ft148 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS123.600
  • TWRKANO TWR118.100
  • APPKANO APP124.100

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

Fly from here

  • Plan a leg out of DNKN
  • DNKN to DNZA, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at DNKN yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • DNZAZaria Airport74 nm
  • DNKTUmaru Musa Yar'adua Airport77 nm
  • DRZRZinder Airport108 nm
  • DNGUGusau Airport108 nm
  • DNKAKaduna International Airport108 nm
  • DNBCSir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Bauchi State International Airport118 nm

Elsewhere

  • Airport website
  • Wikipedia
  • Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.