Aéroport de Saint-Barthélemy-Rémy de Haenen

Aéroport Rémy de Haenen
Characteristics
ICAO code	TFFJ
IATA code	SBH
Coordinates	17 ° 54 '16 "  N , 62 ° 50' 38"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 54 '16 "  N , 62 ° 50' 38"  W.
Height above MSL	15 m (49  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	1 km northeast of Gustavia
Basic data
opening	1984
operator	La Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy
Terminals	1
Passengers	184,450 (2019)
Air freight	344 t (2019)
Flight movements	32,738 (2019)
Start-and runway
10/28	646 m × 18 m concrete

The Aéroport Rémy de Haenen ( IATA code SBH , ICAO code TFFJ , officially Aéroport de Saint-Barthélemy-Rémy de Haenen , formerly Gustaf III Airport or Saint Barthélemy Airport or St. Jean Airport ) is the airport on the French island of Saint-Barthélemy in the Caribbean .

On October 30, 2015, the airport was renamed after the French aviation pioneer and later mayor of Saint-Barthélemy Rémy de Haenen (1916-2008), who dared the first landing with an airplane on Saint-Barthélemy on the site of today's airport in 1946.

On September 6, 2017, Hurricane Irma caused major damage to the airport.

location

The runway is behind a chain of hills and ends at the sea. Due to the topographical conditions, take-offs towards the hills (runway 28) are generally not permitted. The airport may only be approached by pilots who have a special permit.

Destinations and airlines

The airport, which was expanded in 2004, is not directly approached from Europe due to the short runway (646 meters). Air France flies from Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and KLM from Amsterdam to Princess Juliana Airport ( Sint Maarten ). From there, St Barth Commuter or Winair fly to St. Barthélemy. This flight with smaller machines takes about ten minutes. The four-engine de Havilland Canada DHC-7 is the largest passenger aircraft that is allowed to land at the airport.

Incidents

Approach of a Cessna 208 Caravan on Saint Barthélemy

• On March 24, 2001, the pilot of a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter ( aircraft registration F-OGES ) lost control of the aircraft on an Air Caraïbes scheduled flight from Sint Maarten to Saint-Barthélemy when approaching runway 10. The machine crashed near the Col de la Tourmente, just before the landing threshold, and immediately went up in flames, which also set fire to a house next to the crash site. A total of 20 people were killed in the accident, all 19 occupants of the aircraft and one resident of the house.

See also

• List of airports in France

Web links

• L'Aéroport - Presentation. Official website of the Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy, Antilles Françaises (French).
• Getting to St. Barts by Air. Information on arriving by plane. In: St.Barths Online (English).
• Par avion - Sth Barth. Information on the website of the Comité Territorial du Tourisme de Saint Barthélemy (French).
• Plane Crash in the Caribbean - SBH St. Barth. Video of a crash landing of a piper.
• Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on June 7, 2020 (French). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} AD 2 - Aérodromes: TFFJ - Saint-Barthélemy. Official airport information in the Aviation Manual (AIP). Available online on the Service de l'Information Aéronautique (SIA) website . The current eAIP Antilles, Guyane, Saint Pierre et Miquelon is available under “eAIP CAR SAM NAM” and there under the date under “eAIP en vigueur - Effective date” . There you can find the currently valid data sheet and the charts for the airport (French and English) under “AD 2 - AERODROMES: TFFJ SAINT-BARTHELEMY” .
3. ↑ Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy (ed.): Déliberation du Conseil Territorial 2015 - 048 CT . Minutes of the meeting on October 30, 2015. Saint-Barthélemy November 10, 2015, p. 2 , Décide: Article 2 (French, comstbarth.fr [PDF; 169 kB ; accessed on November 17, 2017]).
4. ↑ Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile (ed.): Report f-es010324a: Accident on 24 March 2001 at Saint-Barthélemy (971) to the DHC-6-300 registered F-OGES operated by Caraïbes Air Transport . (English, bea.aero [PDF; 16.8 MB ; accessed on November 17, 2017]).
5. ^ Accident report DHC-6 F-OGES , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 20, 2019.