Huambo Airport is a public use airport near the eastern edge of the city of
Huambo
Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa (English language, English: ''New Lisbon''), is the third-most populous List of cities and towns in Angola, city in Angola, after the capital city Luanda and Lubango, with a population of 595,304 in the city and a pop ...
in
Huambo Province
Huambo is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. With an area of 34,270 km2, it is one of the geographically smaller provinces, situated in the Central Region approximately 450 km south east of the capital, Luanda.
The province had ...
, Angola.
In a May 2016 aerial image, the coordinates show a narrow dirt road over-arched in several places by trees.
The full-services
Albano Machado Airport is south of the FNNL location.
Accidents and incidents
On 19 January 2008, a
Gira Globo Aeronáutica Beechcraft B200 Super King Air on approach to Huambo Airport crashed on a mountain near
Bailundo, killing all 13 people on board.
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List of airports in Angola
This is a list of airports in Angola, sorted by location.
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country in southwest Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its wes ...
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Transport in Angola
References
Airports in Angola
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