Tororo Airport Explained

Tororo Airport
Iata:TRY
Icao:HUTO
Type:Public
Owner-Oper:Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda
City-Served:Tororo
Elevation-F:3900
Coordinates:0.6814°N 34.1678°W
Pushpin Map:Uganda
Pushpin Label:TRY
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the airport in Uganda
R1-Number:18/36
R1-Length-F:4593
R1-Length-M:1400
R1-Surface:Murram
Metric-Rwy:y

Tororo Airport is an airport serving the town of Tororo in the Eastern Region of Uganda.

Location

The airport is about 3km (02miles) by road south of the town centre.[1] This is about 249km (155miles), by road, and 205km (127miles), by air, north-east of Entebbe International Airport, the largest airport in Uganda.[2] The coordinates of this airport are 00°40'53.0"N, 34°10'04.0"E (Latitude:0.681389; Longitude:34.167778).

Overview

The airport is at an average elevation of 3900feet and has a single murram-surfaced runway (18/36), measuring 4593feet long and 98feet wide.[3]

As of June 2015, the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda had plans to develop this facility into a regional airport.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 18 August 2016 . 18 August 2016 . Distance between Municipal Gardens, Tororo, Eastern Region, Uganda and Tororo Airfield, Tororo, Eastern Region, Uganda . Globefeed.com . Globefeed.com.
  2. Web site: 18 August 2016 . Distance between Entebbe International Airport, Entebbe, Central Region, Uganda and Tororo Airfield, Tororo, Eastern Region, Uganda . 18 August 2016 . Globefeed.com . Globefeed.com.
  3. Web site: TRY - Tororo Airport Data . Great Circle Mapper (GCM) . GCM . 18 August 2016 . 18 August 2016.
  4. Web site: 19 August 2016 . Uganda eyes Chinese loan for airport . 28 June 2015 . . Paul . Tentena . Kampala.