FD Roosevelt Airport

FD Roosevelt Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	TNCE
IATA code	EUX
Coordinates	17 ° 29 '47 "  N , 62 ° 58' 46"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 29 '47 "  N , 62 ° 58' 46"  W.
Height above MSL	40 m (131  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	2 km north of Oranjestad
Basic data
opening	1946
operator	Island government of St. Eustatius
Terminals	1
Passengers	37,830 (2017)
Flight movements	6180 (2017)
Start-and runway
06/24	1302 m × 30 m asphalt

The FD Roosevelt Airport ( IATA code EUX , ICAO code TNCE ) is the airport on the island of Sint Eustatius , one of the Special Communities in the Caribbean belonging to the Netherlands .

history

The airport opened as Golden Rock Airport in 1946 and was later named after the US President with Dutch roots, Franklin Delano Roosevelt .

location

The airport is located in a valley between The Quill volcano in the south and the hills of the northern part of the Quill / Boven National Park in the north, in the immediate vicinity of Concordia .

Facilities

The airport has an asphalt runway 1302 meters long and 30 meters wide. It can be approached by passenger aircraft the size of the Fokker 50 , ATR 42 , DHC-8 and cargo aircraft of the size of the Lockheed L-100 and DC-3 . The airport has had solar-powered approach lights since 1996 . The airport is only operated under visual flight weather conditions .

safety

For airport security is the Royal Netherlands , for fire protection and fire fighting the fire Weer Corps Caribisch Nederland responsible. So far (as of 2019) there have been no flight accidents at the airport.

Airlines and Destinations

• Winair flies to Saba and Sint Maarten with a 19-seat DHC Twin Otter .
• Trans Anguilla Airways flies to Anguilla and Saint Kitts with 9-seat Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders .

Web links

Commons : FD Roosevelt Airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• AD 2 TNCE-15 ADC. (PDF; 3.07 MB) Airport map of FD Roosevelt Airport. In: eAIS / eAIP-Publications / 2020-03-26. Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider (DC-ANSP), May 20, 2015(English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Caribbean Netherlands; Aviation, monthly airport data. In: StatLine. Statistics Netherlands (CBS), March 4, 2020, accessed April 20, 2020 . 
2. ^ Franklin Delano Roosevelt Airport. In: inyourpocket.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ AD2.1TNCE. (PDF; 220 kB) eAIP with the official airport data. In: eAIS / eAIP-Publications / 2020-03-26. Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider (DC-ANSP), April 9, 2018, accessed April 22, 2020 . 
4. ^ St. Eustatius Government - Economy. In: statiagovernment.com. St. Eustatius Government, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on April 20, 2020 (English). 
5. ↑ Regeling - Veiligheidswet BES - BWBR0028586. In: Wetten.overheid.nl. Kennis- en Exploitatiecentrum Officiële Overheidspublicaties, accessed on April 19, 2020 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ Airport data Sint Eustatius-FD Roosevelt Airport in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 21, 2020.
7. ^ Winair website , accessed December 27, 2016.
8. ^ Trans Anguilla Airways website , accessed December 27, 2016.