Kona International Airport at Keahole
Kona International Airport at Keahole | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | PHKO |
IATA code | KOA |
Coordinates | |
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
- 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.