Ua Pou Airport | |
Iata: | UAP |
Icao: | NTMP |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Hakahau, Ua Pou |
Location: | Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia |
Elevation-F: | 16 |
Elevation-M: | 5 |
Coordinates: | -9.3517°N -140.0778°W |
Pushpin Map: | French Polynesia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in French Polynesia |
Pushpin Label: | UAP |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 14/33 |
R1-Length-M: | 830 |
R1-Length-F: | 2723 |
R1-Surface: | Paved |
Footnotes: | Sources: Great Circle Mapper [1] |
Ua Pou Airport is an airport on Ua Pou in French Polynesia . The airport is 11 km northwest of the village of Hakahau. As of 2021 it received 3900 passengers a year.[2]
The runway is short, narrow, and slopes uphill, making Ua Pou an Altiport.[3] Aircraft can only land when arriving from the sea, and can only take off towards the sea, whatever the prevailing wind.[3] The runway is 846m long, with a 30m drop.[4]