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Maun International Airport (ICAO: FBMN, IATA: MUB) lies on the northern edge of Maun in Botswana's North-West District, and is the principal gateway to the Okavango Delta and Moremi Game Reserve. Operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana, it is a hub for Air Botswana and Mack Air and, during the June to August safari season, becomes one of the busiest airports in Africa by aircraft movements thanks to the intense charter traffic serving the Delta's lodges.
Maun International Airport serves the town of Maun in Botswana's North-West District and functions as the main aerial gateway to the Okavango Delta and Moremi Game Reserve. It is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana and serves as a hub for Air Botswana and Mack Air, with Wilderness Air also running regular charter services from Windhoek-Eros in Namibia. For a simulator pilot, Maun is notable less for scale than for character: it is a genuine bush-flying crossroads, with a huge volume of short charter hops feeding lodges scattered across the Delta alongside a smaller number of scheduled airline services to Botswana and South Africa.
The airport sits on the north side of the town of Maun, close to the Okavango Delta and within reach of the Moremi Game Reserve. Its reference point lies at -19.9725, 23.4281, with a field elevation of 3077 feet.
Maun has a single physical runway, 08/26, measuring 12127 feet in length. It has a hard paved surface and is lit. There is no ILS at the field.
Air traffic services are provided on AFIS 118.7 MHz, with the tower callsign also using 118.7 MHz. Approach can be contacted on 126 MHz and ground movements on 121.9 MHz. There is no ILS at Maun.
Aviation at Maun dates back to the 1930s, when the first air services used a landing strip that today forms Maun's main street; this was later relocated to the present airport site to the north of the town. The earliest recorded flights over the Okavango took place in July 1925, when two Airco D.H.9 aircraft of the Union Defence Force of South Africa, numbers 142 and 144, flew a river survey route from Johannesburg via Bulawayo to Livingstone, piloted by Captain C.W. Meredith and Lieutenant L. Tasker. In the airport's more recent history, a Cessna 414 crashed in March 2000 while flying from Gaborone to Maun; the pilot and a passenger survived, walking over 200 kilometres to find help. Airlink began direct flights between Cape Town and Maun in March 2016, while Air Namibia suspended its scheduled service to Maun in October 2016.
Maun remains a major charter and safari-support base, with Air Botswana and Mack Air operating from the field and Wilderness Air running scheduled charters from Windhoek-Eros. Traffic is dominated by short flights ferrying passengers and supplies to and from lodges across the Okavango Delta, and during the June to August high season the airport ranks among the busiest in Africa by aircraft movements. Scheduled services also connect Maun with destinations including Cape Town, Gaborone, Johannesburg, Kasane, Victoria Falls, Windhoek, Addis Ababa and Ndola. Plans announced in 2018 by government officials to refurbish and upgrade the terminal building were noted, though no specific completion details are given.
