Airports in Guadeloupe (Famgus Aviation Postcards)

Last updated October 6 2020

This page shows my collection of airport postcards from Nepal.

Number of postcards: 3

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Lukla

Lukla Airport - aka Tenzing-Hillary Airport
[LUA/VNLK]

Tenzing–Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu,
Solukhumbu District, Province No. 1, eastern Nepal.

A program titled Most Extreme Airports, broadcast on The History Channel in 2010, rated the airport as the most dangerous airport in the world for more than 20 years. The airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp.

The airport was built in 1964 under the supervision of Sir Edmund Hillary, who originally intended to build the airport on flat farmlands. However, local farmers did not want to give up their land, so the airport was built at its current position. The runway was not paved until 2001.

The airport's paved asphalt runway is accessible only to helicopters and small, fixed-wing, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft such as the De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, Dornier Do 228, L-410 Turbolet and Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter. The runway is 527 m × 30 m with an 11.7% gradient. The airport's elevation is 2,845 m. The airport is used for passenger flights and for transporting most of the building materials and cargo to Lukla and other towns and villages to the north of Lukla, as there is no road to this region.

[Read more - wikipedia]

Identified airlines on my postcards
Royal Nepal Airlens

Identified aircraft types on my postcards
De Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter

Royal Nepal Airlines De Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 9N-ABB	Unnumbered Airline issued (Royal Nepal Airlines) Lukla Air Field with Mountain Range in the background Unused	Unnumbered Airline issued (Royal Nepal Airlines) Twin Otter at Lukla Air Strip above 8,000 feet Unused	Royal Nepal Airlines De Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 9N-ABB
Fate of Royal Nepal Airlines Twin Otter 9N-ABB: Crashed enroute from Kathmandu to Jumla. There had been a planned refueling stop at Pokhara. During the last leg the plane experienced bad weather and the captain decided to divert to Bhairahawa. Unfortunately the plane crashed while decending towards Bhairahawa airport. [Aviation Safety Network]

Pokhara

Pokhara Airport
[PKR/VNPK]

Pokhara Airport is a domestic airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. Following a new agreement on air travel between India and Nepal,
Pokhara Airport will be replaced by Nepal's second international airport, Pokhara International Airport in 2021.

The airport was established on 4 July 1958 by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. It offers regular connections to Kathmandu and Jomsom; and seasonal connections to Manang. The apron of the airport is relatively small and can only handle eight propeller planes at a time.

[Read more - wikipedia]

Identified airlines on my postcards
Royal Nepal Airlens

Identified aircraft types on my postcards
De Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter

Royal Nepal Airlines
De Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
9N-ABH

Unnumbered
Airline issued
(Royal Nepal Airlines)

RNAC Twin Otter at Pokhara Airfield, with Fishtail
(Mt. Machhapuchre)
in the background

Unused

Fate of Royal Nepal Airlines Twin Otter 9N-ABH:
Crashed enroute Tumling Tar and Kathmandu. The aircraft was off course when it crashed, most likely due to bad weather and/or mis-judgement.
[Aviation Safety Network]