FALM

Makhado Air Force Base Airport

ICAO FALM23.1599°S 29.6965°E935 m / 3,069 ftSmall airport
On the map
At Air Force Base (AFB) Louis Trichardt, South Africa, US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Brian Manibusan, from Guam, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing (FW), Equipment Maintena - DPLA - 752b288c8064ce1e3404410470ed96ed
Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994 · Public domain · Commons

Makhado Air Force Base Airport (ICAO: FALM) is a small airport in Louis Trichardt Southwest, Limpopo, South Africa. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,020 m (13,189 ft). It is operated by South African Air Force.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
10/28090° / 270° · LIT
LENGTH4,020 m13,189 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt
10L/28R090° / 270°
LENGTH500 m1,640 ftWIDTH15 m49 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway4,020 m13,189 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#95of 29,823 · #10 Africa · #4 ZAElevation935 m3,069 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#5,309of 43,341 · #1,278 Africa · #293 ZARunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =13 ZA
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

4 channels
APPAPP121.200
ATISATIS115.000
GNDGND121.750
TWRTWR119.800