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FANCNCS

Newcastle Airport

Newcastle, South Africa

Elevation
4,074 ft
Runways
1
Longest
4,921 ft
Position
-27.771, 29.977
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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

1129N500 m
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
FANCN
Nothing else in range.
Nothing else with an ICAO code inside fifty miles.

By the numbers

  • 4,921 ft

    Runway, all told

    0.8 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 42nd

    Longest in South Africa

    of 61 airfields in the country

  • 3945th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 22nd

    Highest in South Africa

    4,074 ft above sea level

  • 50 nm

    Nearest airfield

    FALY, bearing 194

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
11/294,921 ft75 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

No frequencies recorded for this airfield. Check the airfield briefing before you fly it.

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 FANC
  • FANC to FALY, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at FANC 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

  • FALYLadysmith Airport50 nm
  • FAHRHarrismith Airport54 nm
  • FAEOErmelo Airport77 nm
  • FAULPrince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Airport83 nm
  • FASCSecunda Airport86 nm
  • FDMSMatsapha International Airport103 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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