KMEHRZA

Kamembe Airport

Kamembe, Rwanda · Africa

Africa Africa/Kigali

1runway

1,500 mLongest runway

1928opened

Kamembe International Airport () (IATA: KME, ICAO: HRZA) is an airport in Rwanda. RwandAir operates a Dash 8-Q400 with seven flights per week to and from Kigali International Airport. The airport receives charter flights from Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, though not on a regular schedule. During the Rwandan Civil War, Kamembe Airport was suggested as a site for transiting French arms to the interim government after April 1994.

Location

2.462°S, 28.908°E · 1.583 m s. n. m. (5.192 ft)

General data

CountryRwanda

CityKamembe

IATA codeKME

ICAO codeHRZA

Coordinates2.462°S, 28.908°E

Elevation1.583 m s. n. m. (5.192 ft)

Time zoneAfrica/Kigali

Runways1

Longest runway1,500 m

Opened1928

Runways · 1

02/20

Length1,500 m4,921 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 1

Tower

120.700

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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

History

The airport terminal building was heavily damaged by a 2008 earthquake. In 2010 the Rwanda government announced that Kamembe Airport would be repaired and modernized. By the end of 2012, a new terminal was completed, a new control tower was opened, and Techno Sky, a branch of the Italian publicly-owned ENAV corporation, had installed new navigation systems. During a May 2013 visit, Infrastructure Minister Albert Nsengiyumva announced that the runway would be widened and lengthened from 1.5 kilometres (4,900 ft) to 2 kilometres (6,600 ft) by 2015. The airport re-opened in June 2015 and RwandAir began scheduled flights from the airport.

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Kamembe Airport (KME). Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KME

MLA

“Kamembe Airport (KME).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KME. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Kamembe Airport (KME). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KME (Accessed: 20 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_kme,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Kamembe Airport (KME)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KME},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KME}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-20},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

Wikipedia

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