Airport details

Rokot Airport

Sipora, Indonesia Asia

IATA RKO ICAO WIBR 0 runways
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Airport information

Dataset record
IATA
RKO
ICAO
WIBR
Elevation
1 ft / 0 m
Runways
-
Longest runway
-
Main surface
-
Timezone
Unknown
Coordinates
-2.0991199016571, 99.700698852539

Location

OpenStreetMap

Weather snapshot

Asia/Jakarta · Updated Sat 7 Nov, 18:00

Open-Meteo

Showers now, with temperatures around 24°C to 31°C (75°F to 87°F) today and up to 100% rain risk.

Current
Showers
Temperature
25°C
77°F
Humidity
99%
Wind
2 km/h 1 mph
Local time
18:12
Sunrise
05:59
Sunset
18:10

Today

Showers

24°C to 31°C 75°F to 87°F

Rain 100%
Wind 13 km/h 8 mph

Sun

Showers

24°C to 29°C 74°F to 84°F

Rain 95%
Wind 10 km/h 6 mph

Mon

Showers

23°C to 28°C 74°F to 83°F

Rain 94%
Wind 7 km/h 4 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* Data is from free open route datasets and may be incomplete or outdated.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

Rokot Airport

Rokot Airport(IATA:RKI, ICAO:WIBR), also known asMentawai Airport, is an airport located in Sipora, Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, serving Tuapeijat, the largest town in the Mentawai Islands. The airport serves as the primary gateway to the Mentawai Islands. It currently operates only regional flights to and from Padang, the provincial capital of West Sumatra.

The airport was built and completed in 1980. It originally had a 900 × 23 meter runway. However, due to erosion near the shoreline, the airport was at risk of sinking. The runway, which was originally around 900 meters long, has eroded to approximately 800 meters. This is due to the close proximity between the runway and the shoreline. In addition to coastal erosion, the airport is also at risk of submersion due to local communities extracting coral stones for house construction.

To accommodate the growing passenger traffic to the Mentawai Islands, a new terminal and runway were built and completed on 25 October 2023, at a cost of...

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Rokot Airport

Country

Indonesia

Official name
Indonesia

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