List of airports in the Northern Mariana Islands
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This is a list of airports in the Northern Mariana Islands (a U.S. Commonwealth), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that used to be public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or airports assigned an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code.
This list contains the following information:
- Location - The village or other location generally associated with the airport.
- FAA - The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- IATA - The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
- ICAO - The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
- Airport name - The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.
- Role - One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2021-2025 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report and updated based on FAA Passenger Boarding Data:
- P: Commercial Service - Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types:
- L: Large Hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- M: Medium Hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- S: Small Hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- N: Non-Hub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
- CS: Commercial Service - Non-Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
- R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
- GA: General Aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
- P: Commercial Service - Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types:
- Enpl. - The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2019, as per FAA records.
| City served | FAA | IATA | ICAO | Airport name | Role | Enplanements (2019) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial service – primary airports | ||||||
| Obyan, Saipan Island | GSN | SPN | PGSN | Saipan International Airport (Francisco C. Ada) | P-N | 595,181 |
| Tinian Island | TNI | TIQ | PGWT | Tinian International Airport (West Tinian) | P-N | 38,664 |
| Commercial service – nonprimary airports | ||||||
| Rota Island | GRO | ROP | PGRO | Rota International Airport | CS | 11,625 |
| General aviation airports | ||||||
| Shomu-Shon, Pagan Island | TT01 | Pagan Airstrip | GA | 0 | ||
| Former military airfields | ||||||
| Tinian Island | North Field (closed) |
See also
References
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
- FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
- National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, updated September 2016
- Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2016, updated July 2017
- FAA Order JO 7350.8K - Location Identifiers, effective 29 July 2010
Regional:
- Commonwealth Ports Authority Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
International:
- "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. January 12, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 26, 2007. Retrieved November 23, 2007.
- "UN Location Codes: Northern Mariana Islands". UN/LOCODE 2009-2. UNECE. February 8, 2010. - includes IATA codes
Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list:
- Aviation Safety Network - used to check IATA airport codes
- Great Circle Mapper: Airports in the Northern Mariana Islands - used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
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| Associated states of New Zealand | |
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