| Phaplu Airport | |
| Nativename: | Nepali: विमानस्थल फाप्लु |
| Iata: | PPL |
| Icao: | VNPL |
| Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Nepal |
| Pushpin Label: | PPL |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner: | Government of Nepal |
| Operator: | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal |
| City-Served: | Solu Dudhkunda and Solukhumbu District, Nepal |
| Elevation-F: | 7,918 |
| Elevation-M: | 2,413 |
| Coordinates: | 27.5181°N 86.5844°W |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 02/20 |
| R1-Length-M: | 680 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt Concrete |
| Footnotes: | Source:[1] |
Phaplu Airport (ne|विमानस्थल फाप्लु,) is a domestic airport located in Phaplu, Solududhkunda serving Solukhumbu District, a district in Koshi Province in Nepal.[2]
The airport was opened in October 1976[1] and later broadened by Sir Edmund Hillary to accommodate DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft.[3] The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal shut down the airport in 2013 in order to pave the runway.[4] The airport reopened one year later with a full blacktopped runway.[2]
The airport resides at an elevation of 7918feet above mean sea level. It has one runway which is 671m (2,201feet) in length.
As the airport lies within the approach of Lukla Airport, flights en route to Lukla often get diverted to Phaplu Airport.[5]