Lord Howe Island Airfield
| Lord Howe Island Airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | YLHI |
| IATA code | LDH |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 5 m (16 ft ) |
| Basic data | |
| operator | unknown |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 10/28 | 886 m × 30 m asphalt |
The Lord Howe Island Airport (English Lord Howe Iceland Airport , IATA : LDH , ICAO : YLHI ) is the only airport of the same name Lord Howe Island .
In addition to its runway, the airfield has a parking area that offers space for two smaller aircraft, as well as a small terminal building. The runway itself is roughly in the middle of the island in a diagonal position and ends on both sides just before the shore of the Tasman Sea . It has a length of almost 1005 meters, of which only 886 meters may be used as a runway (the remaining 120 meters are only permitted for take-offs on runway direction 28).
Airlines and Destinations
In 2008, Qantas Airways and Australian Air Express flew to the island several times a week from Sydney and Brisbane .
In addition to tourists, seedlings of Kentia palm trees produced on the island are transported by air freight.
Directions
Due to the small size of the island , there are few vehicles and no public transport. The airfield is bordered on two sides by a road that can be used to reach it directly.
history
Initially, the island had no runway, but was approached by seaplanes , which watered within the lagoon formed by a coral reef . Due to the increasing air traffic, partly due to increasing tourist use and above all by the growing export of howea - seedlings , a firm runway was built in the 1980s on the island.
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Lord Howe Island Airport (English)