DKA

Umaru Musa Yar'adua Airport

ICAO DNKT13.0078°N 7.6604°E506 m / 1,660 ftMedium airport
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Umaru Musa Yar'adua Airport (IATA: DKA, ICAO: DNKT) is a medium airport in Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria. It has one runway, 3,460 m (11,352 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 12 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
04/22037° / 217° · LIT
LENGTH3,460 m11,352 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2017
12K
14K
12K
151617

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsUnited Nigeria Airlines 2Max Air 2Rano Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DKA. From the Wikipedia article “Katsina Airport” (revision of 23 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers12K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,631of 3,974 · #180 Africa · #19 NGLongest runway3,460 m11,352 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#561of 29,823 · #80 Africa · #5 NGElevation506 m1,660 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=10,803of 43,341 · =1,830 Africa · #8 NGRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =3 NG
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

1 channels
TWRTWR125.000