| Huambo Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Huambo | ||||||||||
| Location | Angola | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5,443 ft / 1,659 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°47′10.7″S15°46′28.3″E / 12.786306°S 15.774528°E Coordinates: 12°47′10.7″S15°46′28.3″E / 12.786306°S 15.774528°E | ||||||||||
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  FNNL Location of Huambo Airport in Angola | |||||||||||
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Source: Landings.com [1] | |||||||||||
Huambo Airport( ICAO : FNNL) is a public use airport near the eastern edge of the city of Huambo in Huambo Province, Angola.
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa, is the capital of the province of Huambo in Angola. The city is located about 220 km E from Benguela and 600 km SE from Luanda. The city is the second largest in Angola, after the capital city, Luanda. Huambo is a main hub on the Caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB), which runs from the port of Lobito to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's southernmost province, Katanga. Huambo is served by the Albano Machado Airport.
Huambo is a province of Angola. With an area of 34,270 km2, it is one of the geographically smaller provinces, situated in the Central Region approximately 450 km south east of the capital, Luanda.
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In a May 2016 aerial image, [2] the coordinates show a narrow dirt road over-arched in several places by trees.
The full-services Albano Machado Airport ( IATA : NOV, ICAO : FNHU) is 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) south of the FNNL location.
The Albano Machado Airport is a public airport southeast of Huambo, the capital of Huambo Province, Angola. It was formerly named the Nova Lisboa Airport, since in colonial times the city was called Nova Lisboa, or New Lisbon.
