Coordinates: 28°12′03″N 083°58′55″E / 28.20083°N 83.98194°E / 28.20083; 83.98194

Pokhara Airport
IATA: PKR – ICAO: VNPK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN)
Serves		Pokhara, Nepal
Elevation AMSL		2,712 ft / 827 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
04/22	1,433	4,701	Asphalt
Sources: CAAN and DAFIF

Pokhara Airport (IATA: PKR, ICAO: VNPK), is a regional airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. The airport was established July 4, 1958 and is operated by the government (Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal). It offers regular connections to Kathmandu, Jomsom and seasonal connections to Manang.

Airlines and destinations

• Agni Air (Jomsom, Kathmandu)
• Buddha Air (Kathmandu)
• Gorkha Airlines (Jomsom, Kathmandu)
• Nepal Airlines (Jomsom, Kathmandu, Manang)
• Sita Air (Jomsom, Kathmandu)
• Yeti Airlines (Kathmandu)

Incidents and accidents

• 6 November 1997 - A Necon Air Avro 748-100 (9N-ACM), after a flight from Kathmandu, suffered a hydraulic system failure after landing at Pokhara Airport and ran off the runway. The pilot steered the plane back on the runway after 100m, but it ran onto the ramp and struck another Avro 748 (9N-ACW) of Nepal Airlines), which was parked engineless. There were no fatalities among the 44 passengers and 4 crew.
• 22 August 2002 - A Shangri-La Air De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, on a flight from Jomsom to Pokhara, crashed into a hill which was under complete cloud cover following 3 days of continuous rain. All 3 crew and 15 passengers were killed.

Terminal

The structural design of the current terminal was designed by Shyam L. Sharma in the early 1990's.

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