De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/de-havilland-canada-dhc-6-twin-otter/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://aviospace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/463575282_2477404082464408_3209599391009761950_n-150x150.jpg De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/de-havilland-canada-dhc-6-twin-otter/ 32 32 Not Just Lukla: Exploring Other Airports in the Everest Region https://aviospace.org/not-just-lukla-other-airports-everest-region/ https://aviospace.org/not-just-lukla-other-airports-everest-region/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:02:36 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=10722 When a media outlet as respectable as the BBC comments that Lukla is the “most dangerous airport” in the world, one does take it seriously. And then every other travel blog dubs it to be the most dangerous, and we have a cascade of the labelling of Lukla as an aerodrome of the most extreme […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/not-just-lukla-other-airports-everest-region/feed/ 0 Higher than Lukla: Syangboche, the Forgotten Airstrip in Everest https://aviospace.org/higher-than-lukla-syangboche-airstrip-everest/ https://aviospace.org/higher-than-lukla-syangboche-airstrip-everest/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:41:36 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=10679 Syangboche Airport (SYH) is located at an altitude of 3748 m./12293 ft and lies in Khumjung Municipality of Solukhumbu District, the same district where the supposed most dangerous airport in the world – Lukla Airport lies. However, the airstrip is not currently in operation. Horses in Syangboche graze around the area surrounding the airport, and […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/higher-than-lukla-syangboche-airstrip-everest/feed/ 0 Environmental Impact of Lukla Airport: Balancing Tourism and Sustainability in the Himalayas https://aviospace.org/environmental-impact-of-lukla-airport/ https://aviospace.org/environmental-impact-of-lukla-airport/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:51:30 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=10650 With an impressive airstrip situated 2,900 meters above sea level, Lukla Airport (LUA) is the highest functioning airport in Everest: one of the hiher ones might have had the epithet of rightly being called the most dangerous airport had it been able to survive the impossible test of posterity. Although harsh geographic circumstances and the […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/environmental-impact-of-lukla-airport/feed/ 0 Lukla Airport: The History and Engineering Behind the World’s Most Challenging Airport https://aviospace.org/lukla-airport-history-and-engineering/ https://aviospace.org/lukla-airport-history-and-engineering/#respond Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:26:35 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=10621 The history of Lukla Airport (LUA) stretches back in the 1970s, when the original runway was gravel with a sparse grass covering. A siren would warn of an approaching aircraft so the cattle could be cleared. This was also the case when the first aircraft landed in Lukla. Cattle had to be cleared off the […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/lukla-airport-history-and-engineering/feed/ 0 Nepal Airlines’ First Hijacking Linked 3 Future Prime Ministers to a $30,000 Heist https://aviospace.org/nepal-airlines-corporation-history-first-hijacking-in-nepal/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:44:45 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=8374 Nepal Airlines is one of the main fixed-wing operators in Nepal and the flag carrier of the nation. It was Nepal Airlines that first operated to /from the most dangerous airport in the world– Lukla Airport. The person who was seminal to the construction of Lukla Airport– Sir Edmund Hillary – saw the loss of […]

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]]> Nepal Airlines Once Flew to London and Paris. Now It Is Fighting for Survival https://aviospace.org/nepal-airlines-london-paris-fighting-survival/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:55:49 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=8395 Nepal Airlines used to operate to cities like London, Frankfurt, and Paris, which house not only the busiest international airports in the world but also the busiest global airports. It can well be said that Nepal Airlines was the first operator to the most dangerous airport in the world– Lukla Airport. But in 2019, the […]

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]]> In Pictures: Nepal’s Main fixed-wing & helicopter Operators in 2025? https://aviospace.org/in-pictures-nepals-main-fixed-wing-helicopter-operators-in-2025/ https://aviospace.org/in-pictures-nepals-main-fixed-wing-helicopter-operators-in-2025/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:58:51 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=7097 Nepal is a land of many distinctions in aviation – it is a nation where almost a third of the airports are either abandoned/ non- functional, it houses what is labelled as the most dangerous airport in the world, it has a long-forgotten airport that was more dangerous than Lukla Airport, an airport that could […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/in-pictures-nepals-main-fixed-wing-helicopter-operators-in-2025/feed/ 2 Lukla Airport: Myths vs Facts of “the most dangerous airport” https://aviospace.org/lukla-airport-separating-myths-from-facts-about-the-most-dangerous-airport/ https://aviospace.org/lukla-airport-separating-myths-from-facts-about-the-most-dangerous-airport/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2024 07:17:03 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=3981 Pradip Bashyal, a BBC journalist based in Kathmandu and writer of the brilliant book “Sherpa” shares his thoughts on the airport that is “considered one of the most dangerous airfields in the world”– Lukla: “The runway at this airport, which is a brief strip of just 527m (1,729ft) starting at the edge of a cliff […]

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