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FAKMKIMMajor airport

Kimberley Airport

Kimberley, South Africa

Elevation
3,950 ft
Runways
2
Longest
9,843 ft
Position
-28.805, 24.765
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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

02201028N1 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
FAKMN
Nothing else in range.
Nothing else with an ICAO code inside fifty miles.

By the numbers

  • 17,845 ft

    Runway, all told

    2.9 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 10th

    Longest in South Africa

    of 61 airfields in the country

  • 1044th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 23rd

    Highest in South Africa

    3,950 ft above sea level

  • 75 nm

    Nearest airfield

    FALC, bearing 291

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
02/209,843 ft148 ftAsphaltYes
10/288,002 ft148 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • TWRTWR118.600
  • APPBLOEMFONTEIN APP119.400
  • GTEAPRON122.650

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 FAKM
  • FAKM to FALC, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at FAKM 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

  • FALCLime Acres Finsch Mine Airport75 nm
  • FABLBram Fischer International Airport83 nm
  • FAKUJohan Pienaar Airport108 nm
  • FAVBVryburg Airport109 nm
  • FASSSishen Airport116 nm
  • FXMMMoshoeshoe I International Airport151 nm

Elsewhere

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