Futuna Pointe Vele Airport

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Aérodrome de Futuna Pointe Vele
Futuna Pointe Vele Airport (Horn Islands)
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Characteristics
ICAO code NLWF
IATA code FUT
Coordinates

14 ° 18 '42 "  S , 178 ° 3' 59"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 18 '42 "  S , 178 ° 3' 59"  W

Height above MSL 5 m (16  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km east of Leava
Basic data
operator Service des travaux publics de Wallis-et-Futuna (STP)
Passengers 14,737 (2016)
Air freight 37 t (2016)
Flight
movements
1,668 (2016)
Start-and runway
07/25 1100 m × 30 m asphalt



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The Futuna Pointe Vele airport ( IATA code FUT , ICAO code NLWF , French Aérodrome de Futuna Pointe Vele ) is an airport in the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna .

The airport is located on the island of Futuna near the village of Vele , about 10 km from the main town of Leava . The only airline currently serving the airport is Aircalin from New Caledonia , which operates regional traffic to and from Valais with two DHC-6 Twin Otters .

Web links

  • AD 2 - Aérodromes: NLWF - Futuna Pointe Vélé. Official airport information in the Aviation Manual (AIP). Available online on the Service de l'Information Aéronautique (SIA) website . The current eAIP Nouvelle Calédonie, Wallis et Futuna is available under “eAIP PAC N” 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: NLWW FUTUNA Pointe Vélé” .
  • Pointe Vele Airport (FUT). Airport data. In: World Airport Codes. Fubra Limited (English).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Direction générale de l'aviation civile (ed.): Bulletin Statistique - Trafic aérien commercial année 2016 . Paris April 2017, 2: Aéroports, p. 18 , 2.2.1 Trafic passagers / fret / poste Outre-Mer (French, online on the website of the French Ministry of the Environment [PDF; 2.7 MB ; accessed on December 4, 2017]).
  2. NLWF - Futuna Pointe Vele Airport. In: Lookup Airport. SkyVector, accessed December 4, 2017 .
  3. Claude Dorwling-Carter (Eds.): Wallis et Futuna - Rapport annuel 2016 . Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer (IEOM), Paris 2017, Chapitre III: Les secteurs d'activité - Section 9: Les transports - 3. Le transport aérien, p. 74–76 (French, online [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on December 4, 2017]).