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FVTLGWE

Josiah Tungamirai Air Force Base

Gweru, Zimbabwe

Elevation
4,680 ft
Runways
1
Longest
8,766 ft
Position
-19.437, 29.862
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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

13L31RN1 km
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
FVTLN
Nothing else in range.
Nothing else with an ICAO code inside fifty miles.

By the numbers

  • 8,766 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.4 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 4th

    Longest in Zimbabwe

    of 9 airfields in the country

  • 1621st

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 2nd

    Highest in Zimbabwe

    4,680 ft above sea level

  • 67 nm

    Nearest airfield

    FVMV, bearing 124

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
13L/31R8,766 ft100 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • TWRTHORNHILL TWR123.500
  • APPTHORNHILL APP126.500

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 FVTL
  • FVTL to FVMV, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at FVTL 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

  • FVMVMasvingo International Airport67 nm
  • FVJNJoshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport78 nm
  • FVRGRobert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport114 nm
  • FVCZBuffalo Range Airport135 nm
  • FVWNHwange National Park Airport168 nm
  • FBPMPhillip Gaonwe Matante International Airport170 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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