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| Location | Putao, Myanmar | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,524 ft / 465 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°19′48″N097°25′35″E / 27.33000°N 97.42639°E | ||||||||||
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  PBU Location of airport in Myanmar | |||||||||||
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Putao Airport( IATA : PBU, ICAO : VYPT) is an airport in Putao, Myanmar. The airport was originally part of Fort Hertz, which served as an isolated British outpost during the Burma Campaign in World War II. [1]
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air Thanlwin | Myitkyina [2] |
| Mingalar Aviation Services | Myitkyina |
| Myanmar National Airlines | Myitkyina |
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Fort Hertz was a remote British Military outpost in northeastern Burma in the district of Putao in what is now the Kachin State near the present town of Putao. It was named after William Axel Hertz. Hertz led the first expeditions into the far north of Burma in 1888, was responsible for the 1912 Gazetteer of Kachin Hills area and served as the first Deputy Commissioner of the Government in the Putao District. The military post was established in 1914 and given the name Fort Hertz in 1925 on the retirement of William Hertz from the Indian Civil Service.
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Rawang, also known as Krangku, Kiutze (Qiuze), and Ch’opa, is a Sino-Tibetan language of India and Burma. Rawang has a high degree of internal diversity, and some varieties are not mutually intelligible. Most, however, understand Mutwang (Matwang), the standard dialect, and basis of written Rawang.
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