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Phaplu Airport

Airport in Nepal

Field	Value
name	Phaplu Airport
nativename	फाप्लु विमानस्थल
image	Flughafen Phaplu.jpg
IATA	PPL
ICAO	VNPL
pushpin_map	Nepal
pushpin_map_caption	Location of airport in Nepal
pushpin_label	PPL
pushpin_label_position	right
type	Public
owner	Government of Nepal
operator	Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal
city-served	Solu Dudhkunda and Solukhumbu District, Nepal
location
elevation-f	7,918
elevation-m	2,413
coordinates
metric-rwy	y
r1-number	02/20
r1-length-m	680
r1-surface	Asphalt Concrete
footnotes	Source:

| city-served = Solu Dudhkunda and Solukhumbu District, Nepal | elevation-f = 7,918 | elevation-m = 2,413 | metric-rwy = y | r1-number = 02/20 | r1-length-m = 680 | r1-length-f = | r1-surface = Asphalt Concrete Phaplu Airport (, ) is a domestic airport located in Phaplu, Solududhkunda serving Solukhumbu District, a district in Koshi Province in Nepal.

History

The airport was opened in October 1976 and later broadened by Sir Edmund Hillary to accommodate DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal shut down the airport in 2013 in order to pave the runway. The airport reopened one year later with a full blacktopped runway.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 7918 ft above mean sea level. It has one runway which is 671 m in length.

As the airport lies within the approach of Lukla Airport, flights en route to Lukla often get diverted to Phaplu Airport.

Airlines and destinations

Gallery

File:Phaplu Airstrip 1.jpg| Aerial view of Phaplu Airport File:Check-In am Flughafen Phaplu.jpg|Check-in at Phaplu Airport File:De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 9N-ABT landet auf dem Flughafen Phaplu.jpg|De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 9N-ABT landing at Phaplu Airport

References

{{GCM. VNPL. Phaplu, Nepal (VNPL / PPL)
"Phaplu Airport". Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.
"Airports of Nepal: Phaplu Airport with Photo Feature". Aviation Nepal.
(1999). "View From The Summit". Pocket.
"CAAN to shut down Phaplu airport for a year". Nepal Dispatch.
"Plane with 12 foreigners makes emergency landing at Phaplu". The Himalayan Times.
"Domestic Schedule". Nepal Airlines.
"Flight Schedule". Sita Air.
"Flight Schedule". Summit Air.
"Flight Schedule". Tara Air.

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