Hao Airport | |
Iata: | HOI |
Icao: | NTTO |
Type: | Public |
Operator: | DSEAC Polynésie Française |
City-Served: | Hao Island |
Location: | Hao Island, French Polynesia |
Elevation-F: | 15 |
Coordinates: | -18.0747°N -140.9458°W |
Pushpin Map: | French Polynesia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in French Polynesia |
Pushpin Label: | HOI |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 12L/30R |
R1-Length-M: | 3,380 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Sources: DAFIF[1] French AIP |
Hao Airport is an airport on Hao Island in French Polynesia. The airport is from the village of Otepa. Its unusually long runway (for the atoll's present population) was constructed to permit large transport aircraft (carrying materials for nuclear tests) to land. Their cargoes would be transported onward to nuclear test sites by ships.
Hao airport was a designated emergency landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle.[2]