Pakuba Airfield

Pakuba Airfield
IATA: PAF – ICAO: HUPA PAF Location of Pakuba Airport in Uganda
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda
Serves	Pakuba, Uganda
Elevation AMSL	2,365 ft / 721 m
Coordinates
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 07/25 5,770 1,760 Murram
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Pakuba Airfield (IATA: PAF, ICAO: HUPA) is an airfield serving Pakuba and Murchison Falls National Park in Nwoya District in northern Uganda.

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.

Location

Pakuba Airfield is approximately 275 kilometres (171 mi), by air, northwest of Entebbe International Airport, the country’s largest civilian and military airport. This is approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Bugungu Airstrip.

Cartographic misdesignation

File:Pakuba Airfield.jpg

On a considerable number of cartographic material (including Wikimapia, Google Maps, and others) Pakuba Airfield is incorrectly denoted as "Kabalega Falls Airport" (with "Kabalega Falls" being a now-disused designation for "Murchison Falls"). There are, in fact, two distinct airfields within the boundaries of Murchison Falls National Park. The one on the northern bank of the River Nile is called Pakuba Airfield. The second one, located approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the southeast on the southern banks of the Nile, is named Bugungu Airstrip. Hence, there is currently no aeronautical facility by the name "Kabalega Falls Airport".

See also

• List of airports in Uganda

External links

• Uganda Civil Aviation Authority
• Accident history for Pakuba Airport (IATA: PAF, ICAO: HUPA) at Aviation Safety Network
• Pakuba Airfield on OpenStreetMap