QOW

Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport

ICAO DNIM5.4271°N 7.2060°E114 m / 373 ftMedium airport
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Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport (IATA: QOW, ICAO: DNIM) is a medium airport in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. It has one runway, 2,700 m (8,858 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 547 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
17/35167° / 347°
LENGTH2,700 m8,858 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2021
359K
370K
416K
393K
547K
1516172021

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsUnited Nigeria Airlines 2Air Peace 2Azman Air 1Enugu Air 1Green Africa Airways 1Arik Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from QOW. From the Wikipedia article “Sam Mbakwe Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers547K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,077of 3,974 · #71 Africa · #5 NGLongest runway2,700 m8,858 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,894of 29,823 · =276 Africa · #22 NGElevation114 m373 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=29,594of 43,341 · #2,651 Africa · #33 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
TWROWERRI TWR118.400