Rukum Chaurjahari Airport | |
Iata: | RUK |
Icao: | VNCJ |
Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Nepal |
Pushpin Label: | Chaurjahari Airport |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Government of Nepal |
Operator: | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal |
Elevation-F: | 2,460 |
Elevation-M: | 762 |
Coordinates: | 28.6272°N 82.1942°W |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 03/21 |
R1-Length-M: | 600 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source:[1] |
Rukum Chaurjahari Airport is a domestic airport located in Chaurjahari serving Western Rukum District, a district in Karnali Province in Nepal.
The airport started operations on 24 September 1973.[1] The airport was renovated and the runway blacktopped in 2014 after previously only having a grass/clay runway.[2] After not having scheduled services for several years, Nepal Airlines resumed services from the airport in 2018.[3]
The airport resides at an elevation of 2460feet above mean sea level. It has one runway which is 600m (2,000feet) in length.
Since the early 2020s, there are no scheduled services to and from Chaurjahari Airport. Previously Nepal Airlines operated routes to Kathmandu and Nepalgunj.[4]