Kadhdhoo Airport
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Kadhdhoo Airport or Kadhdhoo Domestic Airport is an airport
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 located on the island of Kadhdhoo in Laamu Atoll
Laamu Atoll
Haddhunmathi Atoll or Laamu Atoll is an administrative division of the Maldives. It corresponds to the natural atoll of the same name. The administrative capital is located in Fonadhoo Island....

, Maldives
Maldives
The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...

. The airport is 3.7 km (3,700,000,000,000 nm) northeast of Fonadhoo
Fonadhoo (Laamu Atoll)
Fonadhoo is the capital island in Laamu atoll of the Maldives....

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Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 1.2 metres (4 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 designated 03/21 with a bituminous surface measuring 1220 by 30 m (4,002.6 by 98.4 ).

Airlines and destinations

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