Baucau Airport
Baucau Airport, formerly Cakung Airport, is an unattended and mostly unused airport near Baucau, Timor-Leste. It is the largest airport in Timor-Leste and has a much longer runway than Dili's Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport, long enough to handle large commercial airliners.
Photo: Looper5920, Public domain.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: international airport in Baucau, East Timor
- Also known as: “BCH” and “WPEC”
- Historically known as: “Cakung Airport”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Macadai de Baixo.
Baucau Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Trilolo, Baucau, Baucau District, Timorese North Coast, Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.48499° or 8° 29′ 6″ south
Longitude
126.39924° or 126° 23′ 57″ east
Elevation
541 metres (1,775 feet)
Operator
Government of Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
IATA airport code
BCH
ICAO airport code
WPEC
Open location code
6Q38G98X+2M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Baucau Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Baucau Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Baucau Airport”
- Chinese: “包考機場”
- French: “aéroport de Baucau”
- French: “Aéroport de Baucau”
- German: “Baucau Airport”
- German: “Cakung Airport”
- German: “Flughafen Baucau”
- German: “WPEC”
- Indonesian: “Bandar udara baucau”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Baucau”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Cakung”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Cakung”
- Indonesian: “BCH”
- Indonesian: “WPEC”
- Italian: “aeroporto di Baucau”
- Japanese: “バウカウ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Cakung”
- Malayalam: “Lapangan Terbang Baucau”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بائوکائو”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Baucau”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto Baucau”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Baucau”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Baucau”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Baucau-Cakung”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Баукау”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи боеҳвкоеҳв”
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