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GQNONKCMajor airport

Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport

Nouakchott, Mauritania

Elevation
9 ft
Runways
2
Longest
11,155 ft
Position
18.310, -15.970
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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

16340624N1 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
GQNON
Nothing else in range.
Nothing else with an ICAO code inside fifty miles.

By the numbers

  • 19,030 ft

    Runway, all told

    3.1 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 1st

    Longest in Mauritania

    of 4 airfields in the country

  • 520th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 4th

    Highest in Mauritania

    9 ft above sea level

  • 139 nm

    Nearest airfield

    GOSS, bearing 192

  • Concrete

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
16/3411,155 ft197 ftConcreteYes
06/247,875 ft148 ftConcreteYes

Frequencies

  • TWRNot named118.400
  • ATIS (EN)Not named127.700
  • ATIS (FR)Not named126.600
  • SMCGND121.700

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 GQNO
  • GQNO to GOSS, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at GQNO 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

  • GOSSSaint Louis Airport139 nm
  • GQPPNouadhibou International Airport168 nm
  • GQPAAtar International Airport212 nm
  • GOSMOuro Sogui Airport223 nm
  • GOBDBlaise Diagne International Airport228 nm
  • GOOYLéopold Sédar Senghor International Airport231 nm

Elsewhere

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