Cuamba Airport is an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 serving Cuamba

Cuamba

Cuamba is a city and district of Niassa Province in Mozambique, lying north west of Mount Namuli. Before independence the town was known as Nova Freixo .It lies on the EN8 road and is connected to the city of Nampula in the east.- Transport :...

, a city in the Niassa Province

Niassa Province

Niassa is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 129,056 km² and a population of 1.027.037 . It is the most sparsely populated province in the country. Lichinga is the capital of the province. There are a minimum estimated 450,000 Yao people living in Mozambique...

 in Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

. The airport is in the southern part of the city and is a major airport in the province of Niassa in central Mozambique.

There are no scheduled flights in or out of the city. Kaya Airlines

Kaya Airlines

Kaya Airlines is an airline based in Maputo, Mozambique and re-branded from Transairways. The airline, which resumed operations on 29 August 2011, flies within the country of Mozambique.- Fleet :As of August 2009 the former Transairways fleet included:...

 is the major airline that comes to the city, with non-scheduled flights from Nampula

Nampula

Nampula is the capital city of Nampula Province in Mozambique.It has a population of 471,717 making it the third largest city in Mozambique after Maputo and Beira. It is home to the Mozambique National Ethnographic Museum, several markets, cathedrals and mosques.It is also the center of business...

.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 1919 feet (585 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

which is 2500 metres (8,202 ft) in length.