Kakira Airport | |
Icao: | HUKK |
Type: | Private & civilian |
Owner: | Madhvani Group |
City-Served: | Kakira, Uganda |
Elevation-F: | 3,960 |
Coordinates: | 0.4989°N 33.2825°W |
Pushpin Map: | Uganda |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Uganda |
Pushpin Label: | HUKK |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 01/19 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,280 |
R1-Surface: | Paved |
Kakira Airport is one of the 46 airports in Uganda.[1] It is a small private, civilian airport in Kakira, Jinja District, Eastern Region. The geographic coordinates of this airport are 00 degrees, 29 minutes, 56 seconds north and 33 degrees, 16 minutes, 57 seconds east (latitude: 0.4990; longitude: 33.2825). It is approximately 107km (66miles), by air, east of Entebbe International Airport, the country's largest civilian and military airport.[2]
The airport is adjacent to the Kakira Sugar Factory and within the Kakira estate close to the main family residences on the Madhvani estate. The private airport serves the town of Kakira and the Madhvani Group. Its operations are privately administered and, as of December 2009, not by the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority.[3]
The airport is 3960feet above sea level and has a single paved runway that is 1280m (4,200feet) in length.[4]