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Hao Airport

Hao Airport

Airport on Hao Island, French Polynesia

For the airport in the United States of America with the IATA code HAO, see Butler County Regional Airport.

Hao Airport (IATA: HOI, ICAO: NTTO) is an airport on Hao Island in French Polynesia. The airport is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) 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.

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Hao airport was a designated emergency landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle.[3]

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Annual passenger traffic at HOI airport. See Wikidata query.

References

  1. [1]
    "Airport information for NTTO". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  2. [2]
    NTTO – Hao. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 18 April 2024.
  3. [3]
    Space Shuttle Emergency Landing Sites
  4. [4]
    "Download forecast schedule - Official website - Air Tahiti".


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