Airport details

Rene Mouawad Air Base

Kleiat, Lebanon Asia

IATA KYE ICAO OLKA 1 runways
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Airport information

Dataset record
IATA
KYE
ICAO
OLKA
Elevation
75 ft / 23 m
Runways
1
Longest runway
9,843 ft / 3,000 m
Main surface
Concrete
Timezone
Asia/Beirut
Coordinates
34.589298248291, 36.011299133301

Location

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Weather snapshot

Asia/Beirut · Updated Sat 7 Nov, 09:15

Open-Meteo

Light showers now, with temperatures around 16°C to 20°C (61°F to 67°F) today and up to 90% rain risk.

Current
Light showers
Temperature
19°C
66°F
Humidity
84%
Wind
12 km/h 7 mph
Local time
09:28
Sunrise
06:01
Sunset
16:37

Today

Thunderstorm

16°C to 20°C 61°F to 67°F

Rain 90%
Wind 15 km/h 9 mph

Sun

Overcast

13°C to 21°C 56°F to 69°F

Rain 50%
Wind 21 km/h 13 mph

Mon

Overcast

9°C to 20°C 48°F to 67°F

Rain 0%
Wind 19 km/h 12 mph

Airline service

Routes dataset

No airline route coverage data is currently available for this airport.

* Data is from free open route datasets and may be incomplete or outdated.

About

From Wikipedia

René Mouawad Airport(Arabic:مطار الرئيس الشهيد رينيه معوض,romanized: Maṭār ar-Raʾīs aš-Šahīd Rinih Muʿawwad), also known asQlayaat AirportorKleyate Airport(Arabic:مطار القليعات), is a joint civil–military airport in the town of Qlayaat, Akkar District, Northern Lebanon, located approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the Lebanon–Syria border.

The facility is operated by the Lebanese Armed Forces asRené Mouawad Air Base. As of 2026, it is being rehabilitated for the resumption of civilian operations alongside its continued military use.

Qlayaat airport originally began as a small private airstrip constructed in 1934 by the Iraq Petroleum Company, which it used to transport its employees and technicians between Lebanon and other Arab countries with the help of its fleet of small aircraft. The location was chosen because of its strategic location in the flat coastal plain of Akkar in Northern Lebanon as well as to its close proximity to the railway line connecting Lebanon to Syria and Iraq...

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Country

Lebanon

Official name
Lebanon

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