NKW

Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia

7.3133°S 72.4111°E3 m / 9 ftMedium airport
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Terminal BIOT
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Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia (IATA: NKW) is a medium airport in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory. It has one runway, 3,659 m (12,003 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by United States Navy.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
13/31122° / 302° · LIT
LENGTH3,659 m12,003 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEConcrete

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway3,659 m12,003 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=321of 29,823 · #94 AsiaElevation3 m9 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,589of 43,341 · =3,141 AsiaRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia
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

7 channels
A/GA/G VOICE1325.400
APPAPP134.100
ATISATIS28.200
GCAGND118.400
OPSAMC OPS128.000
PMSVPMSV METRO34.460
TWRTWR34.020