Putao Airport

ICAO VYPT27.3299°N 97.4263°E457 m / 1,500 ftMedium airport

Putao Airport (IATA: PBU, ICAO: VYPT) is a medium airport in Putao, Kachin State, Myanmar. It has one runway, 2,134 m (7,002 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

17/35174° / 354° · LIT

LENGTH2,134 m7,002 ftWIDTH31 m102 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Year-round1

MYTMyitkyina AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines, Myanmar Airways International, Mingalar Aviation Services +1217 km135 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PBU. From the Wikipedia article “Putao Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

4 airlines · destinations from PBU

Passenger4

STAir Thanlwin1 K7Mingalar Aviation Services1 8MMyanmar Airways International1 UBMyanmar National Airlines1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from PBU. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway2,134 m7,002 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,467of 29,858 · =1,022 Asia · =21 MM Elevation457 m1,500 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=12,012of 43,403 · =882 Asia · #17 MM Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =185 Asia · =1 MM

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

1 channels

TWRTWR118.700