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French Frigate Shoals Airport has one runway designated 06/24 with a coral surface measuring 3,000 by 200 feet (914 x 61 m) at an elevation of six feet (2 m) above mean sea level. The runway is closed, except for emergencies, or with prior permission from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
French Frigate Shoals Airport comprises what remains of the original naval air station. [17] The ship YHB-10 arrived at French Frigate Shoals in August 1942, carrying staff to help establish the naval base there. [18] It was moored on the north side of Tern Island and used as a floating barracks. [7]
Also see airport category and list. PHBK (BKH) – Pacific Missile Range Facility (Barking Sands) – Kauai County, Hawaii; PHDH (HDH) – Dillingham Airfield – Mokuleia, Hawaii; PHHF – French Frigate Shoals Airport – Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals; PHHI (HHI) – Wheeler Army Airfield – Wahiawa, Hawaii; PHHN (HNM) – Hana Airport ...
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French Frigate Shoals is an atoll, the largest region of coral reefs in Hawaii, at 200 square miles (520 km 2). The atoll is composed of a dozen or so small islands, one of which (Tern Island) contains an airport and human habitations. Gardner Pinnacles is made up of two small basalt peaks, the last rocky island in Hawaii. While the island ...
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Tern Island is a coral island located near French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.It is in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge.It is approximately 490 miles (790 kilometers) west-northwest of Oahu, about halfway to Midway Island to the west.
This is a list of airports in Hawaii (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.