Waterkloof Air Force Base

By the numbers

• 17,300 ft

  Runway, all told

  2.8 nm of pavement across 2 runways

• 6th

  Longest in South Africa

  of 61 airfields in the country

• 577th

  Longest in the world

  of 4,677 with a measured runway

• 8th

  Highest in South Africa

  4,940 ft above sea level

• 3 nm

  Nearest airfield

  FASK, bearing 291

• Asphalt

  Surface

  Every runway lit