Malakal Airport
| Malakal Airport | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The runway in 2009
|
|||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public, Civilian | ||||||||||
| Owner | Civil Aviation Authority of South Sudan | ||||||||||
| Serves | Malakal, South Sudan | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,291 ft / 393 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 09°33′32″N 031°39′08″E / 9.55889°N 31.65222°ECoordinates: 09°33′32″N 031°39′08″E / 9.55889°N 31.65222°E | ||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||
 HSSM
|
|||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
Sources:
|
|||||||||||
Malakal Airport (IATA: MAK, ICAO: HSSM) is an airport serving Malakal, a city in Malakal County in the Eastern Nile state of South Sudan. The airport is located just north of the city's central business district, adjacent to the main campus of Upper Nile University. Malakal is near the international border with the Republic of Sudan and the border with Ethiopia.
Malakal is the smaller of two international airports in South Sudan. The largest, Juba International Airport, lies approximately 521 kilometres (281 NM) to the south in the capital city of Juba.
As part of the United Nation's Mission to Sudan (UNMIS), the airport was a major staging point for United Nation operations to South Sudan and will continue to do so under the new United Nation's Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) mandate.
The airport resides at an elevation of 1,291 feet (393 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,000 by 38 metres (6,562 ft × 125 ft).
The following airlines maintain scheduled service at Malakal Airport to the following destinations:
...
Wikipedia