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Johnston Atoll Airport is located on the Johnston Atoll in the United States Minor Outlying Islands, in the Pacific Ocean 717 nautical miles (1328 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii. It was an active U.S. military facility during the 20th century, but the airport was shut down in 2005 and the runway is not maintained.
Location: ICAO: IATA: FAA IDD: Airport name Type Howland Island: Kamakaiwi Field Public (abandoned) [1] Johnston Atoll: PJON: JON: Johnston Atoll Airport: Public (abandoned) Midway Atoll: PMDY MDY MDY Henderson Field [a] Public Palmyra Atoll: PLPA P16 Cooper Airport: Private Wake Island: PWAK AWK AWK Wake Island Airfield: Military
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In February 1941, the United States designated Johnston Atoll a Naval Defensive Sea Area and Airspace Reservation. In September 1941, construction of an airfield on Johnston Island commenced. A 4,000-by-500-foot (1,219 by 152 m) runway was built together with two 400-man barracks, two mess halls, a cold-storage building, an underground hospital ...
French Frigate Shoals Airport (ICAO: PHHF, FAA LID: HFS) is a private use airport on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals, a coral atoll, in Hawaii, United States.It is owned by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, [1] as part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
Although located to the west of Midway Atoll, Kure Atoll has a time zone 1 hour ahead at UTC−10:00 (the same as the rest of Hawaii). Kure is the northernmost coral atoll in the world. [3] [4] It consists of a 6-mile-wide (9.7 km) nearly circular barrier reef surrounding a shallow lagoon and several sand islets.
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See Also: Battle of Midway, Henderson Field (Midway Atoll), Lofton R. Henderson. The Midway Islands are best known as the location of the pivotal battle of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Henderson Field was built in 1941. It consisted of a seaplane facility on Sand Island and a landplane airfield on Eastern Island.