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Cairo West Air Base

ICAO HECW30.1164°N 30.9155°E170 m / 557 ftMedium airport

Bright Start to BRIGHT STAR 25- U S and Egypt participate in joint COMAO (9286476) — U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Dunkleberger · Public domain · Commons

Cairo West Air Base (ICAO: HECW) is a medium airport in Cairo, Giza Governorate, Egypt. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,639 m (11,939 ft).

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

16L/34R165° / 345° · LIT

LENGTH3,639 m11,939 ftWIDTH60 m196 ftSURFACEAsphalt

10/28107° / 287° · LIT

LENGTH2,781 m9,125 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway3,639 m11,939 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=362of 29,823 · #40 Africa · #6 EG Elevation170 m557 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=26,094of 43,341 · #2,559 Africa · #17 EG Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =6 EG

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

APPAPP125.300

CLDCLNC130.000

GNDGND130.000

TWRTWR127.400