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HECACAIMajor airport

Cairo International Airport

Cairo, Egypt

Elevation
322 ft
Runways
3
Longest
13,124 ft
Position
30.112, 31.397
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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

05R23L05C23C05L23RN2 km
3 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
HECPHECWHECAN
3 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • HECP23
  • HECW25
  • HESX26
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 3 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 37,074 ft

    Runway, all told

    6.1 nm of pavement across 3 runways

  • 2nd

    Longest in Egypt

    of 21 airfields in the country

  • 88th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 10th

    Highest in Egypt

    322 ft above sea level

  • 23 nm

    Nearest airfield

    HECP, bearing 097

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
05R/23L13,124 ft197 ftAsphaltYes
05C/23C13,123 ft197 ftAsphaltYes
05L/23R10,827 ft197 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS122.600
  • GNDGND121.900
  • TWRTWR118.100
  • APPAPP119.050
  • MISCVOLMET126.200
  • PFLTPREFLIGHT120.100
  • RDOcairo radio11.300
  • VOLMETNot named124.600

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 HECA
  • HECA to HECP, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at HECA 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

  • HECPCapital International Airport23 nm
  • HECWCairo West Air Base25 nm
  • HESXSphinx International Airport26 nm
  • HEPSPort Said International Airport83 nm
  • HEAXAlexandria International Airport101 nm
  • HEAREl Arish International Airport138 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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