Mandera Airport (HKMA)

Mandera Airport at a glance

Mandera Airport is a small airport / airfield in Mandera, Mandera County, Kenya, known to airline systems as NDE. The field elevation of 805 ft (245 m) is the number every arriving pilot dials against QNH — circuit heights and initial approach altitudes at HKMA are all figured from it. There is no scheduled airline service listed here — typical traffic is general aviation, training and local operations.

The single runway, 05/23, offers 3,609 ft (1100 m) of unk surface, without recorded lighting. Runway numbers give magnetic orientation: runway 05 points roughly 50° magnetic.

For the weather side of planning, the live METAR and TAF page for HKMA shows the current observation decoded line by line — wind on an instrument dial, visibility, cloud layers and the resulting flight rules — refreshed continuously from official sources.

Flight-planning notes for Mandera Airport

Density altitude is the quiet performance-killer at any field: on a hot day the 805 ft field elevation of Mandera Airport can translate into a substantially higher density altitude, stretching take-off rolls and flattening climb rates — run the numbers rather than trusting the feel of a standard day. As with most small fields, the recorded details can lag reality — surfaces get resurfaced, thresholds move and operating hours change — so a call ahead to the field operator is part of the plan, not a courtesy.

This entry is one of 24 airports and airfields we list for Kenya — the country index on the airports hub links the rest. Coordinates above are given in both DMS and decimal degrees so they can go straight into a GPS, a flight planner or a chart plot without conversion.

Where this data comes from

The reference layer behind this page builds on the OurAirports dataset — a public-domain, community-maintained register of the world's airports that many flight planners and apps rely on — with equity records preserved from documented historical listings where the dataset is silent. Figures are carried as published: elevations as surveyed, coordinates as filed, runway dimensions as recorded. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and the whole layer regenerates from source on every site build, so corrections upstream arrive here automatically.