| Mweya Airport | |
| Icao: | HUMW |
| Type: | Civilian |
| Owner: | Queen Elizabeth National Park |
| City-Served: | Mweya, Uganda |
| Location: | Mweya, Uganda |
| Elevation-F: | 3,200 |
| Elevation-M: | 980 |
| Coordinates: | -0.1942°N 29.8939°W |
| R1-Number: | 06/24 |
| R1-Length-F: | 4,120 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1255 |
| R1-Surface: | Grass |
| Footnotes: | Source: Google Maps[1] |
Mweya Airport is a small civilian airport in Uganda. It is one of the 46 airports in the country.[2]
Mweya Airport is located in Mweya, Kasese District, in western Uganda, approximately 283km (176miles), by air, west of Entebbe International Airport, the country's largest civilian and military airport.[3]
Mweya Airport serves the area of Mweya and the neighboring areas of Queen Elizabeth National Park and the Lake Katwe Explosion Crater.[4] [5] As of January 2010, the airport was not under the administration of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority.[6] Mweya Airport receives daily flights from Murchison Falls National Park, Entebbe International Airport and Kajjansi Airfield, which are frequently used by tourists to visit Queen Elizabeth National Park.[7]