Pakuba Airfield
Pakuba Airfield (IATA: PAF, ICAO: HUPA) is an airfield serving Pakuba and Murchison Falls National Park in the Nwoya District of northern Uganda.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda | ||||||||||
Serves | Pakuba, Uganda | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 2,365 ft / 721 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 02°20′00″N 031°30′00″E | ||||||||||
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PAF Location of Pakuba Airport in Uganda | |||||||||||
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The airport is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda. It is one of the five upcountry airports that are authorized to handle cross-border air traffic from member countries of the East African Community, as part of efforts to promote tourism within eastern Africa.[3]
Location
Pakuba Airfield is approximately 275 kilometres (171 mi) by air north-west of Entebbe International Airport, the country’s largest civilian and military airport.[4]
It is 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-west of Bugungu Airstrip and 72 kilometres (45 mi) west of Chobe Safari Lodge Airport, which are also within Murchison Falls National Park.[5]
Cartographic misdesignation
On a considerable number of cartographic materials (including Wikimapia, Google Maps, and others) Pakuba Airfield is incorrectly denoted as "Kabalega Falls Airport". "Kabalega Falls" is a now-disused designation for "Murchison Falls."[6]
Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations |
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Aerolink Uganda | Entebbe[7] |
See also
Uganda portal Aviation portal - List of airports in Uganda
- Transport in Uganda
References
- Pakuba Airfield, Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda, 24 February 2014, accessed 15 November 2015
- "Pakuba, Uganda (IATA: PAF, ICAO: HUPA)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- "Aerodromes". Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- "Uganda CAA - Pakuba". Archived from the original on 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
- "Uganda Wildlife travel". Archived from the original on 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
- "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- Aerolink Uganda (2019). "Aerolink Uganda Destinations". Entebbe: Aerolink Uganda. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
External links
- Uganda Civil Aviation Authority
- Accident history for Pakuba Airport (IATA: PAF, ICAO: HUPA) at Aviation Safety Network
- Pakuba Airfield on OpenStreetMap