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Accra International Airport (ICAO: DGAA), long known as Kotoka International Airport, is Ghana's principal international gateway, sitting on the northern edge of the capital, Accra. It offers a single long hard-surfaced runway equipped with ILS, and handles everything from regional turboprops to wide-body long-haul jets, making it a notable fixed point of reference for any simulated flight in West African airspace.
Accra International Airport lies just north of central Accra and serves as Ghana's main international gateway, operated by Ghana Airports Company Limited. It is a hub for regional carrier Africa World Airlines and a base for domestic operator Passion Air, and its long ILS-equipped runway and busy mix of African, European, Middle Eastern and North American traffic give it plenty of interest for a simulator pilot flying into West Africa.
The airport sits on the northern side of the city of Accra, in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, at coordinates 5.6044, -0.1675 and an elevation of 184 feet. As the country's principal international aerodrome it lies within controlled airspace served by area, approach and tower control.
The airport has a single physical runway, 03/21, oriented roughly north-northeast to south-southwest. It is a hard-surfaced (asphalt), lit runway, with the 03 threshold showing a length of 11,380 feet and the 21 threshold showing 10,190 feet, the difference reflecting declared distances at each end. An ILS is provided on runway 21, giving instrument approach guidance for arrivals from the southwest.
Radio services are provided under the callsigns Accra Approach, Accra Ground and Accra Tower. Published frequencies are Accra Approach on 119.5 MHz, Accra Ground on 121.9 MHz and Accra Tower on 119.1 MHz. An ILS is available on runway 21 for instrument approaches.
The airfield began life as a military airfield used by the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War, before being handed over to civilian authorities after the war. President Kwame Nkrumah launched a redevelopment in 1956 to convert the base into a civil terminal, a project completed in 1958 that gave the airport a capacity of 500,000 passengers a year under the name Accra International Airport. In 1969 the airport was renamed Kotoka International Airport in honour of Lieutenant General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, a member of the National Liberation Council who had been killed in an abortive coup attempt at a location now forming the airport's forecourt. The renaming remained a point of debate for decades, since Kotoka had led the coup that overthrew Nkrumah, the president who had built the airport. On 23 February 2026 the airport's designation was officially changed back to Accra International Airport. A new Terminal 3, with capacity for five million passengers a year and able to handle aircraft as large as the Airbus A380, opened to passengers on 15 September 2018 after construction that began in March 2016.
Accra International Airport today operates as Ghana's busiest airport, serving a wide network of domestic, regional, and long-haul international routes with passenger numbers that reached a record 3.62 million in 2025. It is a hub for Africa World Airlines and a base for Passion Air, and hosts numerous scheduled and ad-hoc cargo operators alongside its passenger traffic. The airport uses Terminal 2 for domestic flights and Terminal 3 for regional, international and long-haul services, while the former Terminal 1 is planned for redevelopment as a fixed-base operator facility.
