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Phillip Gaonwe Matante International Airport

ICAO FBPM21.1592°S 27.4688°E1,001 m / 3,283 ftLarge airport
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Phillip Gaonwe Matante International Airport (IATA: FRW, ICAO: FBPM) is a large airport in Francistown, Francistown (city), Botswana. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,000 m (9,843 ft). It is operated by Botswana Defence Force. In 2018 it handled 37 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
13/31121° / 301° · LIT
LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
11/29097° / 277° · LIT
LENGTH2,200 m7,218 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2017–2018
37K
37K
1718

Routes

2 destinations · 2 countries

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from FRW. From the Wikipedia article “Phillip Gaonwe Matante International Airport” (revision of 29 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers37K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,214of 3,974 · #149 Africa · #4 BWLongest runway3,000 m9,843 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,196of 29,823 · =185 Africa · #3 BWElevation1,001 m3,283 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#4,801of 43,341 · #1,140 Africa · #31 BWRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =1 BW
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

2 channels
APPAPP125.700
TWRTWR118.100