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Sadiq Abubakar III International Airport (SKO)

Sokoto, Nigeria · ICAO DNSO · IATA SKO

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Sadiq Abubakar III International Airport (DNSO)0826
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Sokoto, Nigeria
ICAO code
DNSO
IATA code
SKO
Elevation
1,010 ft
Longest runway
9,844 ft (08/26)
Runways
1
Size class
Large
Position
12.9157, 5.2076

About DNSO

Sadiq Abubakar III International Airport (SKO) is a large airport in Sokoto, Nigeria, with the ICAO code DNSO. It has one runway, 08/26, 9,844 ft long and 197 ft wide, with a hard surface. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 10 taxiway segments, 1 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 2 airlines have 2 routes through DNSO. Its most frequent links are Abuja (ABV) and Lagos (LOS).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
08 / 269,844 ft197 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

    Also flying here, shown by airline code: NGL, NUA.

    Connected airports

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    Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.