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GVACSIDMajor airport

Amílcar Cabral International Airport

Espargos, Cape Verde

Elevation
177 ft
Runways
1
Longest
10,760 ft
Position
16.741, -22.949
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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

0119N1 km
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
GVBAGVACN
1 airfield in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • GVBA36
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 1 other airfield in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 10,760 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.8 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 1st

    Longest in Cape Verde

    of 6 airfields in the country

  • 663rd

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 3rd

    Highest in Cape Verde

    177 ft above sea level

  • 36 nm

    Nearest airfield

    GVBA, bearing 175

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
01/1910,760 ft148 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • TWRTWR119.700
  • APPSAL APP - (V)126.400
  • A/GA/G345.200
  • AWOSNot named127.600

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 GVAC
  • GVAC to GVBA, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at GVAC 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

  • GVBAAristides Pereira International Airport36 nm
  • GVSNPreguiça Airport77 nm
  • GVMAMaio Airport96 nm
  • GVNPNelson Mandela International Airport112 nm
  • GVSVCesaria Evora International Airport121 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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