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FAUPUTN

Upington Airport

Upington, South Africa

Elevation
2,782 ft
Runways
3
Longest
16,076 ft
Position
-28.400, 21.264
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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

173501190826N5 km
3 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
FAUPN
Nothing else in range.
Nothing else with an ICAO code inside fifty miles.

By the numbers

  • 26,810 ft

    Runway, all told

    4.4 nm of pavement across 3 runways

  • 1st

    Longest in South Africa

    of 61 airfields in the country

  • 4th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 31st

    Highest in South Africa

    2,782 ft above sea level

  • 102 nm

    Nearest airfield

    FASS, bearing 064

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
17/3516,076 ft197 ftAsphaltYes
01/197,998 ft148 ftAsphaltYes
08/262,736 ft98 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • TWRTWR121.300
  • APPAPP121.300
  • MISCAPRON OFFICE122.650

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 FAUP
  • FAUP to FASS, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at FAUP 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

  • FASSSishen Airport102 nm
  • FALCLime Acres Finsch Mine Airport115 nm
  • FAKUJohan Pienaar Airport127 nm
  • FAAGAggeneys Airport139 nm
  • FAKMKimberley Airport186 nm
  • FASBSpringbok Airport191 nm

Elsewhere

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