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Nairobi Wilson Airport (WIL)

Nairobi, Kenya · ICAO HKNW · IATA WIL

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Nairobi Wilson Airport (HKNW)14320725
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
ICAO code
HKNW
IATA code
WIL
Elevation
5,536 ft
Longest runway
5,052 ft (14/32)
Runways
2
Size class
Medium
Position
-1.3217, 36.8148

About HKNW

Nairobi Wilson Airport (WIL) is a medium airport in Nairobi, Kenya, with the ICAO code HKNW. Its two runways are 14/32 and 07/25. The longer one, 14/32, is 5,052 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 36 taxiway segments, 7 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, RNG has 6 routes through HKNW. Its most frequent links are Kisumu (KIS) and Wajir (WJR).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
14 / 325,052 ft76 ftHardNot lit
07 / 254,798 ft72 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 These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date.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: RNG.

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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.