[5] The public airport is about 5 kilometres (3 mi) by road west of Kabale, on the Kabale-Kisoro Road.

[6] It is approximately 311 kilometres (193 mi) by air south-west of Entebbe International Airport, Uganda's largest civilian and military airport.

[7] As of January 2010, the airport was not under the administration of the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda.

[8] The airport has a single unpaved runway.

Aeronautical charts show the runway length at 610 metres (2,000 ft),[2] and satellite images indicate a maximum length of 1,400 metres (4,600 ft),[3] while a newspaper article stated the land set aside for the runway was 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi).