Rumjatar Airport
Encyclopedia
Rumjatar Airport is an airport
serving Rumjatar
, a village in the Okhaldhunga district
of the Sagarmatha zone
in Nepal
.
of 4500 feet (1,372 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
which is 549 metres (1,801 ft) in length.
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 Rumjatar
Rumjatar
Rumjatar is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,825 living in 600 individual households.-External links:*...
, a village in the Okhaldhunga district
Okhaldhunga District
Okhaldhunga District of 156,702.Okhaldhunga is part of area traditionally called Wallo Kirat,home to indigenous ethnic groups Rai and Sunuwar...
of the Sagarmatha zone
Sagarmatha Zone
Sagarmāthā zone in the north, hill districts in the center, and valley districts of the Terai in the south. The borders of this zone are China to the north, India to the south, the Koshi Zone to the east and the Janakpur Zone to the west....
in Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
.
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 4500 feet (1,372 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...
which is 549 metres (1,801 ft) in length.