Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport KAN / DNKN

Verified 2026-09-01 against Wikipedia, OurAirports, AirNav/SkyVector runway data, and FAAN's own site (faan.gov.ng, including the makia-kano page and homepage). Confirmed unchanged from draft: IATA/ICAO codes; coordinates (Wikipedia's DMS figure 12°02′55″N 8°31′20″E converts to the same decimal degrees given, 12.0486/8.5222); elevation 1562ft/476m; both runway lengths and widths (06/24 3301m x 60m, 05/23 2451m x 45m, both asphalt); no ILS on either runway, VOR/NDB only, confirmed via AirNav navaid listing; FAAN's 21-airport count, 5 international plus 16 local, confirmed verbatim on FAAN's own homepage; the Aviation and Aerospace Development ministry — FAAN's own about-us page still names the old Federal Ministry of Transportation, stale wording left over from before the 2023 ministry split, but Wikipedia and the ministry's current branding confirm Aviation and Aerospace Development (Minister Festus Keyamo since Aug 2023) is the correct current oversight body; the 1936 founding date, oldest airport in Nigeria per both Wikipedia and FAAN; and the domestic-terminal history — FAAN's Kano page gives a Nov 2009 completion date, Wikipedia gives both milestones (completed Nov 2009, commissioned May 2011), so the completion date was added alongside the draft's commissioning date for precision. Corrected: contact phone regrouped from +234-1-2800842 to +234-128-00842 to match FAAN's own site exactly — same eight digits, but the draft's grouping misleadingly read like a Lagos-style leading 1 area code; website normalized to include www., since the bare faan.gov.ng form was unconfirmed and www.faan.gov.ng/makia-kano/ is what actually resolves. Not independently corroborated: the CY2024 passenger figure of 585,000 and the flight-movements figure of 211,671, down 15. The two flight-movement numbers are at least internally consistent, 39,870 divided by 251,541 is exactly 15.85 percent, which is a mild point in their favor but not verification. Same caveat applies to the number-4-nationally ranking behind Lagos (about 7.5M, 2025), Abuja (about 5.8M, 2025) and Port Harcourt (about 1.19M, 2024) — plausible given Kano's historical 290k-430k range across 2009-2021 per Wikipedia, but not independently checked. The historic seasonal Hajj-charter hub claim is consistent with FAAN's own description of pilgrimage-flight operations at this airport. Two runways: 06/24 (3,301m, primary civil runway, shared by both terminals) and 05/23 (2,451m, primarily Nigerian Air Force operations).