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FAORJNBMajor airport

O.R. Tambo International Airport

Johannesburg, South Africa

Elevation
5,558 ft
Runways
2
Longest
14,495 ft
Position
-26.140, 28.247
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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

03L21R03R21LN2 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
FAGMFAGCFAWKFALAFAWBFAVVFAORN
7 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • FAGM8
  • FAGC11
  • FAWK19
  • FASK20
  • FALA21
  • FAWB29
  • FAVV30
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 7 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 25,650 ft

    Runway, all told

    4.2 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 3rd

    Longest in South Africa

    of 61 airfields in the country

  • 33rd

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 3rd

    Highest in South Africa

    5,558 ft above sea level

  • 8 nm

    Nearest airfield

    FAGM, bearing 220

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

Fetching the latest report...

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
03L/21R14,495 ft200 ftAsphaltYes
03R/21L11,155 ft197 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS126.200
  • CLDClearance Delivery121.700
  • GNDGround121.900
  • TWRTower West118.100
  • TWRTower East118.600
  • APPRadar West123.700
  • APPRadar East124.500
  • GTEJohannesburg Apron Control122.650

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 FAOR
  • FAOR to FAGM, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at FAOR 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

  • FAGMRand Airport8 nm
  • FAGCGrand Central Airport11 nm
  • FAWKWaterkloof Air Force Base19 nm
  • FASKSwartkop Air Force Base20 nm
  • FALALanseria International Airport21 nm
  • FAWBWonderboom Airport29 nm

Elsewhere

  • Airport website
Wikipedia

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