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El Kharja Airport

ICAO HEKG25.4715°N 30.5885°E59 m / 194 ftSmall airport
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El Kharja Airport (IATA: UVL, ICAO: HEKG) is a small airport in Kharja Oases, New Valley Governorate, Egypt. It has one runway, 3,500 m (11,483 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Egyptian Airports Company. In 2018 it handled 7 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
18/36180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2007–2018
3K
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7K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
250 km500 km100 mi200 mi300 miCAI · Cairo International Airport · 522 km / 324 miCAIUVL
Most destinationsEgyptAir 1Petroleum Air Services 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from UVL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “El Kharga Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers7K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,818of 3,974 · #189 Africa · #16 EGLongest runway3,500 m11,483 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=489of 29,823 · =64 Africa · =8 EGElevation59 m194 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,083of 43,341 · =2,785 Africa · #33 EGRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =28 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

2 channels
RDORDO585.900
TWRTWR122.800