Nairobi Wilson Airport

Nairobi Wilson Airport (WIL/HKNW) is in Nairobi, KE, 1687 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 1,540 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
WIL · HKNW
City
Nairobi
Country
KE
Coordinates
-1.3217, 36.8148
Elevation
1687 m · 5536 ft
Time zone
Africa/Nairobi
Local time now
15:58
Airspace
Nairobi
Departures observed
71 · 36 arrivals
Most seen destinations
NBO

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
06:57RNG930WIL
07:095YPCSC208 · 5Y-PCS
07:185YSLRC208 · 5Y-SLR
08:265YMAGC208 · 5Y-MAG
08:57
09:095YCMBC208 · N208AR
09:15RNG933DH8A · 5Y-MJC
09:19PHN114C680 · 5Y-PABWIL
09:355YBZWC180 · 5Y-BZW
09:415YZBHC208 · 5Y-ZBH
09:575YSXEC208 · 5Y-SXE
10:145YBHTT210 · 5Y-BHT
10:165YSXNC208 · 5Y-SXN
10:185YBXU
10:265YZBYC208 · 5Y-ZBY
10:295YZBVC208 · 5Y-ZBV
10:365YSLLC208 · 5Y-SLL
10:585YSLPC208 · N9006T
11:055YZBPC208 · 5Y-ZBP
11:19H125M
11:595YPCXPC12 · 5Y-PCXNBO
12:31219
12:415YCPL
13:335YBHTT210 · 5Y-BHT
13:405YSLSC208 · N20076
13:565YKUI
14:09B06 · KAF1900WIL
15:155YHNKAS50 · 5Y-HNK
15:55ELW104C208 · 5Y-YWCNBO
16:06
16:18H130R
16:385YDWBR66 · 5Y-DWB
16:43MI8 · UR-HZW
16:515HAAPC208 · 5H-AAP
17:335YZBDC208 · 5Y-ZBD
18:245YPRC
18:42HARAMB1A139 · 1804
18:43SWIFT326A139 · NASD002
18:445YPRLAS50 · 5Y-PRL
19:015YGNRB350 · 5Y-GNR

Landed (36)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
03:18RWD464B738 · 9XR-WY
04:42MSR849B738 · SU-GEK
05:04UAE717B77W · A6-EQP
05:12IGO1853A20N · VT-IOG
05:16KQA785B738 · 5Y-CYC
05:34CGS805B738 · A6-SHO
05:42KQA117B788 · 5Y-KZG
05:53KQA509B738 · 5Y-CYA
06:09CSN633B789 · B-20E8
06:25KQA257E190 · 5Y-FFE
06:45ATC200DH8D · 5H-TCB
06:57KQA203B738 · 5Y-CYD
07:01QTR25EB77W · A7-BAV
07:04ETD769B77W · A6-ETP
07:07BAW63B772 · G-YMMG
07:35KQA275E190 · 5Y-FFK
07:41JMA8711DH8D · 5Y-JXH
07:47KQA765B738 · 5Y-CYFJNB
07:53JMA8650DH8D · 5Y-JXLNBO
08:12JMA8660DH8D · 5Y-JXCNBO
08:20JMA8600DH8D · 5Y-JXINBO
08:27KQA115B788 · 5Y-KZC
08:405YPCXPC12 · 5Y-PCX
08:44RNG930WIL
08:47UGD200CRJ9 · 5X-EQU
09:11JMA8662DH8D · 5Y-JXPNBO
09:305YSKCF100 · 5Y-SKC
09:315YSLPC208 · N9006TNBO
09:33RIPIT01DH8B · N480AV
09:475YSLLC208 · 5Y-SLL
09:50JMA8640DH8D · 5Y-JXONBO
12:005VC46NBO
12:435YSLSC208 · N20076
12:48PHN114C680 · 5Y-PABWIL
13:06RNG841NBO
14:24B06 · KAF1900WIL

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
14/321,540 m · 5,052 ftasphalt134° · 314°
07/251,462 m · 4,798 ftasphalt70° · 250°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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