Tahiti airport
Aéroport international Tahiti Faa'a | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | NTAA |
IATA code | PPT |
Coordinates | |
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 |
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):
- ETOM 0/82 "Maine", an Air Force Transport Group with CN235-200 (since January 1996) and AS332 (since August 1998)
- Flotilla 25F, a naval aviation maritime patrol squadron with Dassault Falcon 200 Guardian (since 2000)
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
- On July 22, 1973, a crashed Boeing 707-321 of Pan American World Airways ( air vehicle registration N417PA) shortly after taking off from the airport Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean. Of the 79 people on board, only one survived. The cause of the accident could not be clarified (see also Pan-Am flight 816 ) .
See also
Web links
- Aeronautical map for Tahiti Airport on SkyVector.com
- Airport information (English)
- Military website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ History of SETIL (English)
- ↑ Accident Report B-707 N417PA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 16 of 2019.