# Nelspruit Airport (NLP / FANS)

**Nelspruit Airport** (IATA: NLP, ICAO: FANS) is a small airport in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa. It has one runway, 1,042 m (3,419 ft) long.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/fans

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: NLP / FANS
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa
- Elevation: 876 m / 2,875 ft
- Coordinates: -25.5000, 30.9138
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,042 m / 3,419 ft
- Time zone: UTC+2 · Africa/Johannesburg
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelspruit_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3643204
- Weather station: FANS · WMO 68289
- Ident: FANS

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 04/22 | 1,042 m / 3,419 ft |  |  |  |  |

- 04/22 slopes 1.9%: threshold 22 at 864 m / 2,835 ft, threshold 04 at 884 m / 2,901 ft.

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,042 m / 3,419 ft | =13,041 of 29,858 | #857 in Africa | #116 in ZA |
| Elevation | 876 m / 2,875 ft | #5,814 of 43,403 | #1,350 in Africa | #308 in ZA |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =176 in Africa | =42 in ZA |

## Nearby airports

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- [FAWV](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fawv.md) White River Mercy Air · 21 km / 13 mi
- [MQP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fakn.md) Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport · 23 km / 14 mi
- [FABR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/fabr.md) Barberton Airport · 25 km / 15 mi
- [ZA-0101](https://dromopedia.com/airports/za-0101.md) Sappi / Ngodwana · 31 km / 19 mi
- [ZA-0370](https://dromopedia.com/airports/za-0370.md) Sabie Airfield · 46 km / 29 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/fans/data