VNLK IATA LUA Medium Airport

Airport record

Tenzing-Hillary Airport

Lukla, Koshi Province, Nepal

Scheduled service reportedHigh elevationAll open runways reported not lighted
WGS 84 position 27.68677°, 86.72948° Open map
FIELD ELEVATION 9,380 ft MSL

2,859 metres

REPORTED OPEN RUNWAYS 1

0 reported lighted · 1 reported not lighted

LONGEST REPORTED 1,729 ft

527 metres · 06/24

PUBLISHED COMMS 2

Source records

Runway geometry

Reported runway surfaces

TRUE headings
Runway Dimensions Surface Heading (true) Lighting Status
06/24 1,729 × 98 ft527 × 30 m Asphalt 60.0° / 240.0° northeast–southwest Reported not lighted Reported open

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Runway ends

Published end data

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Runway-end identifiers, parent runways, true headings, elevations, displaced thresholds, and published coordinates
End Runway True heading End elevation Displaced threshold Coordinates
06 LE · low-numbered end 06/24 Reported open 60.0°T 9,134 ft MSL2,784 m Not published 27.68568°, 86.72722° Open end map ↗
24 HE · high-numbered end 06/24 Reported open 240.0°T 9,334 ft MSL2,845 m Not published 27.68802°, 86.73172° Open end map ↗

Communications

Published frequencies

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TypeFrequencyDescription
APP 122.300 MHz No description published
TWR 122.500 MHz No description published

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Nearby airports

All in Nepal
CodeAirportDistance & bearingLongest runway
ZULS Lhasa Gonggar International AirportShannan (Gonggar) 241 NM446 km · NE · 65° true 13,123 ft
VGHS Hazrat Shahjalal International AirportDhaka 304 NM563 km · SE · 139° true 11,500 ft
VECC Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportKolkata 316 NM586 km · S · 162° true 11,919 ft
VEBS Biju Patnaik International AirportBhubaneswar 449 NM832 km · S · 187° true 9,003 ft
VIDP Indira Gandhi International AirportNew Delhi 513 NM949 km · W · 278° true 14,534 ft
VICG Shaheed Bhagat Singh International AirportChandigarh 551 NM1,020 km · W · 291° true 12,467 ft

Source & provenance

Data source

Airport, runway, and frequency records come from the OurAirports Public Domain dataset snapshot dated . Missing values remain missing; Runway Almanac does not invent them.