Manaung Airport

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Manaung (Samonte) Airport
IATA: MGU ICAO: VYMN
Summary
Location	Manaung, Rakhine State, Myanmar
Elevation AMSL	102 ft / 31 m
Coordinates	18°50′46″N 093°40′58″E / 18.84611°N 93.68278°E / 18.84611; 93.68278
Map
MGU Location of airport in Myanmar
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 16/34 4,000 1,219 Bitumen

Manaung Airport (IATA: MGU, ICAO: VYMN) is an airport in Manaung, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Manaung Airport was constructed in 1969 for Douglas C-47 Skytrain airplanes as a grass landing airstrip. In the 1983-1984 fiscal year, it was upgraded to be all-weather accessible with a 2,000 ft long bituminous airstrip for Twin Otter type aircraft. In 2015, The length of the airstrip was then expanded to 4,000 ft^[1] for F-27 Fokker aircraft, with only 3,700 ft of the airstrip being upgraded to asphalt concrete surface.

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