Rosales_Airport

Rosales Airport

Rosales Airport

Place in Philippines

Rosales Airport is an airfield located in Rosales, Pangasinan, in the Philippines. It is listed by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines for operation of rotary aircraft only.[1] The airfield was constructed in October 1941, on the eve of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, initially as a dirt landing strip.[2] Before and after the occupation of Clark Air Base by the Japanese, Rosales acted as a secondary airfield for U.S. Air Force aircraft stationed there. Its gravel runway has a length of 1,043 metres (3,422 ft).[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Summary of Aerodrome Data (Area Center I)" (PDF). Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  2. [2]
    Edmonds, Walter Dumaux (1951). They Fought With What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941–1942. Boston: Little, Brown and co. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-42891-541-1.
  3. [3]
    "2.2.1.6 Philippines - Luzon Rosales Airport". Logistics Capacity Assessments. WFP. Logistics Cluster. 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2024.


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