Kuito Airport
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Kuito Airport is an airport
serving Kuito
(known as Silva Porto
before 1975), a city in the Bié Province in Angola
.
of 5618 feet (1,712 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 08/26 with an asphalt
surface measuring 2500 by 30 m (8,202.1 by 98.4 ).
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...
serving Kuito
Kuito
Kuito is a city located in central Angola. It is the administrative capital of Bié Province. Under Portuguese rule until 1975, it was called Silva Porto. Kuito was under siege in 1993/94 and again in 1998/99 by the rebel forces from UNITA...
(known as Silva Porto
Silva Porto
Silva Porto may refer to:* António Silva Porto, Portuguese painter* António da Silva Porto, Portuguese trader and explorer* The Angolan town of Kuito, known as Silva Porto before 1975...
before 1975), a city in the Bié Province in Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
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 5618 feet (1,712 m) 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 08/26 with an asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
surface measuring 2500 by 30 m (8,202.1 by 98.4 ).