Mweya Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Civilian | ||||||||||
Owner | Queen Elizabeth National Park | ||||||||||
Serves | Mweya, Uganda | ||||||||||
Location | Mweya, Uganda | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 3,200 ft / 980 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 00°11′39″S029°53′38″E / 0.19417°S 29.89389°E Coordinates: 00°11′39″S029°53′38″E / 0.19417°S 29.89389°E | ||||||||||
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Source: Google Maps [1] |
Mweya Airport( ICAO : HUMW) is a small civilian airport in Uganda. It is one of the 46 airports in the country. [2]
Mweya Airport is located in Mweya, Kasese District, in western Uganda, approximately 283 kilometres (176 mi), by air, west of Entebbe International Airport, the country's largest civilian and military airport. [3]
Mweya Airport serves the area of Mweya and the neighboring areas of Queen Elizabeth National Park and the Lake Katwe Explosion Crater. [4] [5] As of January 2010, the airport was not under the administration of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority. [6]
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Aerolink Uganda | Entebbe [7] |
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