Tahiti airport

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Aéroport international Tahiti Faa'a
Aéroport international Tahiti Faa'a.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code NTAA
IATA code PPT
Coordinates

17 ° 33 '24 "  S , 149 ° 36' 41"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 33 '24 "  S , 149 ° 36' 41"  W

Height above MSL 2 m (7  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 5 km southwest of Papeete
Basic data
opening 1961
operator AEROPORT DE TAHITI (ADT)
Terminals 1
Passengers 1,243,631 (2016)
Air freight 11,574 t (2016)
Flight
movements
36,710 (2016)
Start-and runway
04/22 3420 m × 45 m bitumen mixture



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The Aéroport international Tahiti Faa'a ( IATA : PPT, ICAO : NTAA) is the international airport of the island of Tahiti and also the international airport of French Polynesia .

It is also used as a military airfield by the French armed forces in New Caledonia. The armed forces refer to it as Détachement air 190 Tahiti-Faaa (DA190).

With its well-developed runway, it can also be approached by wide-bodied aircraft. It has a passenger terminal and a freight terminal.

history

The plans to build the airport go back to 1950. However, there was no suitable site on the island for such a large airport, which is why a corresponding area had to be artificially filled up off the north coast of the island. Construction began in 1959; the first aircraft, a Douglas DC-7 from Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI), landed in October 1960. The airfield was officially inaugurated in 1961.

Military use

The base currently houses (2015):

There are also some non-flying formations.

Civil use

Home bases

The airport is the home base of Air Tahiti , which mainly operates domestic flights, and Air Tahiti Nui , which mainly handles international flights.

National goals

Air Archipels , Air Moorea , Air Tahiti and WanAir fly or fly from here to various, sometimes very small, airports in French Polynesia.

International destinations

Along with Santiago de Chile and Lima, Tahiti is one of only three airports from which Easter Island is served by scheduled flights. Air Tahiti Nui flies with five Airbus A340s to Tokyo, Auckland, Los Angeles and, like Air France, to Paris via LA. Hawaiian Airlines flies to Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii once a week. United Airlines connects the airport with the west coast of the USA and flies three times a week from San Francisco.

Incidents

See also

Web links

Commons : Fa'a'ā International Airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Statistiques annuelles Aéroport de Tahiti - Faa'a. (No longer available online.) In: aeroport.fr. Union des Aéroports Français (UAF), archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; Retrieved August 15, 2017 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aeroport.fr
  2. eAIP PAC P (section AD-2.NTAA). In: sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr. Service de l'Information Aéronautique (SIA) de la Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) de la Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile (DGAC), July 20, 2017, archived from the original on August 15, 2017 ; accessed on August 15, 2017 (French; English).
  3. History of SETIL (English)
  4. Accident Report B-707 N417PA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 16 of 2019.