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Welkom Airport (WEL)

Welkom, South Africa · ICAO FAWM · IATA WEL

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Welkom Airport (FAWM)0725
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Welkom, South Africa
ICAO code
FAWM
IATA code
WEL
Elevation
4,421 ft
Longest runway
6,578 ft (07/25)
Runways
1
Size class
Small
Position
-27.9968, 26.6633

About FAWM

Welkom Airport (WEL) is a small airport in Welkom, South Africa, with the ICAO code FAWM. It has one runway, 07/25, 6,578 ft long and 59 ft wide, with a hard surface. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 15 taxiway segments and 1 aprons. The route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026 has no scheduled routes for FAWM.

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
07 / 256,578 ft59 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

The route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026 has no scheduled routes for this airport.

Nearby airports with maps

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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.