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Kampala Airport was located on the south-facing slope of Kololo Hill in the centre of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. Its location is about 35 kilometres (22 mi), by air, north of Entebbe International Airport, Uganda's largest airport. [2] The airport had a single gravel runway of 1000 x 60 yd (914 x 55 mt).
A Handley Page H.P.42 of Imperial Airways at Entebbe, 1936. The airport was opened by the British Colonial authorities. According to the website of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, due to the airport's location on Lake Victoria and the existing facilities, the colonial government decided that the most optimal location for aviation traffic was Entebbe.
Map of Uganda. This is a list of airports in Uganda, sorted by location.. Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa.It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania.
The authority's head offices are at Entebbe International Airport, approximately 49 kilometres (30 mi) south of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. [5] The coordinates of the CAA headquarters are 0°02'23.0"N, 32°26'53.0"E (Latitude:0.039722; Longitude:32.448056). [6]
Moi International Airport [9] Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport [10] Nigeria: Lagos: Murtala Muhammed International Airport [8] Abuja: Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport [11] [12] [13] Somalia: Mogadishu: Aden Adde International Airport [10] South Africa: Johannesburg: O. R. Tambo International Airport [14] [15] South Sudan: Juba ...
In February 2019, the first of four CRJ900 aircraft that Uganda Airlines had ordered, took its first test flight with the livery of the new airline. [85] On 29 March 2019, the Ugandan parliament approved a request by the Ugandan government for USh 280 billion (approx. US$76 million), to pay for the first two CRJ900s, expected to arrive in Uganda in April 2019.