Niafunke Airport
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Niafunké Airport is an airport
serving Niafunké
, a town in the Niafunké Cercle
in the Tombouctou Region of Mali
.
The airport resides at an elevation
of 866 feet (264 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
that is 1200 metres (3,937 ft) long.
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 Niafunké
Niafunké
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, a town in the Niafunké Cercle
Niafunké Cercle
Niafunké Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Tombouctou Region of Mali. The administrative center is the town of Niafunké. In the 2009 census the cercle had a population of 184,285...
in the Tombouctou Region of Mali
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...
.
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 866 feet (264 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...
that is 1200 metres (3,937 ft) long.