Kajjansi Airfield
Kajjansi Airfield is an airfield serving Kajjansi, a town in the Central Region of Uganda.
Location
The airfield is approximately north-east of Entebbe International Airport, Uganda's largest airport, and south of the central business district of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The geographical location of the airfield are:0°12'01.0"N, 32°33'00.0"E. Kajjansi Airfield sits at an elevation of above mean sea level. Kajjansi is located in the southern portion of the Kampala conurbation. The airport has one unpaved runway 14/32, which is long. The runway is east of the Kampala–Entebbe Road, bordering marshland near the shore of Lake Victoria.Ownership
The airfield is owned by Aviation Communication and Logistics Services, and operated by Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), an international Christian humanitarian relief and development organisation. In the mid-2010s, the Christian engineering charity Engineering Ministries International redeveloped the office building of the airfield. The new office building became the headquarters of both MAF Uganda and EMI East Africa.Operations
Kajjansi Airfield is also the operations base for Kampala Aeroclub and Flight Training Centre. The company operates scheduled and charter tours to three of Uganda's national parks; Murchison Falls National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi National Park.The same company maintains an ICAO-recognized flight-training school that trains, tests and awards private pilots licenses. The school is sometimes referred to as Kajjansi Flying School. KAFTC also operates an aircraft maintenance facility at this airport, under the name of Kampala Aero Maintenance.