Kona International Airport at Keahole

Kona International Airport at Keahole
Characteristics
ICAO code	PHKO
IATA code	KOA
Coordinates	19 ° 44 '20 " N , 156 ° 2' 44" W Coordinates: 19 ° 44 '20 " N , 156 ° 2' 44" W.
Height above MSL	14 m (46 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	14 km northwest of Kailua-Kona
Street	Hawaii Belt Road
Basic data
opening	1970
operator	Hawaii Department of Transportation
surface	1093 ha
Terminals	1
Passengers	3,088,641 (2016)
Air freight	27,993 t (2016)
Flight ; movements	135,064 (2016)
Start-and runway
17/35	3353 m × 46 m asphalt

The Kona International Airport at Keahole is an airport near Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii in the US state of Hawaii . It serves the western part of the island.

history

After the first Kailua-Kona airport, which opened in 1949, had reached its capacity limits, the Hawaiian Ministry of Transport decided to build a new airport at the current location 12 kilometers to the north. Construction began in May 1969 with a first blow to the leveling of from Lava existing underground. In July 1970 the airport was opened as Keahole Airport , named after Keāhole Point .

After United Airlines added the airport to its route network in 1983, the infrastructure was extensively expanded by 1987 as part of a master plan. In 1990 the astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Space Center was inaugurated at the airport , in which items from the astronaut Ellison Shoji Onizuka , who died in the Challenger crash , are exhibited. After the runway was extended in February 1993, the airport is also able to handle wide-body aircraft; in April 1993 the airport was renamed Keahole-Kona International Airport . Since 1996 it has also been possible to handle international flights. Therefore, patterns such as Boeing 717 , 737 , 757 and 767 can often be seen on the apron .

In 1997 the airport was named Kona International Airport at Keahole .

business

Kona Airport has direct flights to destinations in the Hawaiian Islands and the mainland United States. A large part of the flight movements fall into the area of general aviation .

Incidents

So far, three people have been killed in two incidents.

On August 25, 1977, a Short Skyvan aircraft crashed while approaching . About two kilometers behind the runway, the machine burned out, two people died.
On September 10, 1989, a pilot attempted an emergency landing on runway 17 with an Aero Commander 680 after the power of the right engine dropped. The machine crashed about half a kilometer southwest of the runway, and a person was killed next to a seriously injured man.

Web links

Commons : Kona International Airport - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Official website (English)
http://www.kona-airport.com

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Publications and Statistics. Hawaii.gov, accessed August 24, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Airport History - Hawaii Airports ( English ) State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
↑ cf. Keāhole in Place Names of Hawaiʻi , Kona International Airport at Keahole in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
↑ Aircraft Operations by Type ( English ) State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 31, 2011.

[publications-1] Publications and Statistics. Hawaii.gov, accessed August 24, 2017 .

[history-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Airport History - Hawaii Airports ( English ) State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 2, 2011.

[3] . Keāhole in Place Names of Hawaiʻi , Kona International Airport at Keahole in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey

[stat-4] Aircraft Operations by Type ( English ) State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 31, 2011.