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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
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.
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 ...
Johnston Atoll is located between the Marshall Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. Johnston Atoll is a 1,300-hectare (3,200-acre) atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, located about 750 nautical miles (1,390 km; 860 mi) southwest of the island of Hawaiʻi, and is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. [11]
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.
Marines walk past a flight line of SB2Cs on Falalop, December 1944. The Japanese had built an airstrip on Falalop. Ulithi Atoll was captured unopposed on 20 September 1944. On 8 October the 51st Naval Construction Battalion began to improve the former Japanese airfield on Falalop, creating a coral-surfaced 3,500 feet (1,100 m) by 150 feet (46 m) runway, six taxiways, hardstands, lighting, a ...
Verdant Meadows Airfield, an airstrip based on Davis–Monthan Air Force Base and appearing in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; Sandy Shores Airfield, an airfield based on Amboy Airfield and appearing in the video game Grand Theft Auto V