| Ishasha Airport | |||||||||||
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| Location | Ishasha, Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,390 ft / 1,033 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 0°44′29″S29°37′28″E / 0.74139°S 29.62444°E Coordinates: 0°44′29″S29°37′28″E / 0.74139°S 29.62444°E | ||||||||||
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  FZNI Location of airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |||||||||||
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Ishasha Airport( ICAO : FZNI) is an airport serving Ishasha, a town in the North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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.
North Kivu is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Goma.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997. It is, by area, the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of over 78 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populated officially Francophone country, the fourth-most-populated country in Africa, and the 16th-most-populated country in the world. Currently, eastern DR Congo is the scene of ongoing military conflict in Kivu, since 2015.
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The runway has a 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) grass strip clear of structures, opening into a further 400 metres (1,300 ft) open field, however it has trees and shrubbery growing in it. [2] [3]
The town of Ishasha is on the border with Uganda.
