Hao Airport Explained

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]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

References

  1. Web site: usurped. Airport information for NTTO. https://web.archive.org/web/20190305143444/http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?airport=NTTO. 2019-03-05. World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  2. http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/facility/sts-els.htm Space Shuttle Emergency Landing Sites