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Tinian International Airport covers an area of 1,416 acres (573 ha) which contains one paved runway (8/26) measuring 8,600 x 150 ft (2,621 x 46 m). [ 1 ] For 12-month period ending March 17, 2022, the airport had 29,207 aircraft operations, an average of 80 per day: 74% air taxi , 26% general aviation and <1% military.
During the relentless bombing of Japan in 1945, North Field on Tinian, with its four 8,000-foot runways and 40,000 personnel, became the largest and busiest airport in the world.
North Field is a World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands.Abandoned after the war, today North Field is a tourist attraction. Along with several adjacent beaches on which U.S. Marines landed during the Battle of Tinian, the airfield is the major component of the National Historic Landmark District Tinian Landing Beaches, Ushi Point Field, Tinian Island.
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:
West Field is a former World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands.Today, West Field is used as the civilian Tinian International Airport.West Field at Tinian Naval Base was a base for Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands in 1944–45 and the base for the B-29 Superfortress 58th Bombardment Wing.
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Tinian Island in 1945: the vast North Field airfield is in the foreground with West Field beyond; the rest of the island is filled with barracks, buildings, and hangars. The task would have been easier if the plateau had been wider. As it was, the 7,000-foot (2,100 m) wide plateau required large amounts of fill.