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Our member Jeremy Denton and his father Paul visited Ras Al Khaimah International Airport (RKT / OMRK) from Dubaï. The airport has a passenger terminal, a cargo terminal and an aircraft maintenance area. Currently, Ras Al Khaimah International Airport is being rebranded within efforts to attract legitimate cargo, in particular from establishments under the Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone and also passengers traffics mostly charter services. This airport is good if you spend times in Dubai or around that you can managed to go to RKT for a half of day for a ramp tour. The most interesting stuff at RKT are all the stored aircraft. It still have some scheduled flights mainly by Air Arabia but you could be happy to shoot lots of Tristar (5x), DC-8 (7x), some Ilyushin 76 (4x), Antonov 12 (1x), CRJ-900 (2x), Boeing 732 (1x), Boeing 727 (1x), Boeing 743, DC-9… Since a year, Air Arabia has launched some scheduled flights to over 10 destinations (Cairo, Chittagong, Dhaka, Doha, Kathmandu, Islamabad, Jeddah, Lahore, Muscat, Peshawar) with an Airbus 320. Qatar Airways is coming from DOH as from 01.10.2015 with an Airbus 320 and Sun Express Germany with a Boeing 738 (Charter flights) from 30.10.2015 (Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart). Some information about the traffics could be reached by this link : https://www.rakairport.com/fids.aspx
Written by Jeremy & Paul Denton (visited April 2013)
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| Airport Information | Runways | 16 / 34 | |||
| 3’760m (12’336ft) | |||||
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| Terminals | Passenger | Cargo | |||
| Spotting Information | Ladder | Not needed | |||
| Car | Necessary | ||||
| Restrooms | Available only at the airport. | ||||
| Drinks/Food | Available only at the airport. | ||||
| Hotels | Nothing near the airport. Only at 20 minutes by car to Ras Al Kaimah city. | ||||
| Season | I suggest October until April. Chance of dust sky during summer. | ||||
| Runway Usage | 16 / 34 | Used in all direction, nothing special. | |||
 | Spot #1 – Ramp Tour |
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| WHERE | From Dubaï, follow Ras Al Kaimah City, then when you see Ras Al Kaimah Airport, follow it. Park your car at RKT parking, next to the terminal. Then find inside the terminal, the office of the authority. |
| WHAT | You have the possibility to make a ramp tour of every area, the main important are the stored and the maintenance ramp. For 500AED, so around 125$ for the day. Please gather this information and send to these addresses: pro@rakdca.gov.ae / pr@rakdca.gov.ae
The office is opened from Sunday until Thursday 08:00LT – 23:00LT BUT KEEP IN MINED THAT you have to get a letter from your company which you are working for. If you are not working in an aviation related company that will be hard to get access as they allow only people who are working in aviation. So you have to find someone which says that the company knows you since a long time, that you are doing pictures for an aviation company and you are working in freelance, etc. Try to asked to some aviation website in case as well. |
| TIME | All day tour but in 3 to 4 hours you’ll get every aircraft and theirs no much regular traffic there as well… |
| MISC. | No drinks and no foods will be available during the day. You have to take everything before you are doing the ramp tour or if you can’t wait, asked the driver to make a stop to the terminal for your request. |
| FOCAL LENGTH | 18 – 250mm |
| Spot #2 – Arrivals runway 34 – Afternoon |
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| WHERE | From Dubaï, follow Ras Al Kaimah City, then when you see Ras Al Kaimah Airport, follow it. When you pass throw the village of Mudfak, stay next to the roundabout. |
| WHAT | You can get all arrivals on runway 34 during afternoon |
| TIME | From around 13:00 until around 17:30 |
| MISC. | Nothing, bring with you what you need (drinks & foods)… |
| FOCAL LENGTH | 100 – 300mm |
4 Comments
I visited Ras Al Khaimah in December 2016 and gained the necessary permission to photograph on the ramp and in the storage areas on both sides of the airport. Just my like, Sharjah and Dubai were fogged out so there were many diversions in to RAK! My question, might anyone have the registration of the dumped unmarked Mi-2 wearing Medevac titles on the far side close the Gulfstream 1? I could find nothing. Thanks.
Hello Kirk,
can you tell me anything about the TriStars at RKT ?
I urgently need an information about the actual status of former N162AT, N164AT and N194AT. Can you help me ?
Thanks in advance, Markus
Dear Sir
Just enquiring about what you mean by an official letter. Is this one you write yourself or do you have to ctc some government office…
Dear Sir,
You have to get a letter from your company which you are working for. If you are not working in an aviation related company that will be hard to get access as they allow only people who are working in aviation. So you have to find someone which says that the company knows you since a long time, that you are doing pictures for an aviation company and you are working in freelance, etc.
Jeremy