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1 List of airports with a paved runway at least 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long. 2 Other notable runways. 3 See also. ... Airport name Country Coordinates Length (m) (ft)
The Boeing 747 is considered to have the longest takeoff distance of the more common aircraft types and has set the standard for runway lengths of larger international airports. [43] At sea level, 3,200 m (10,500 ft) can be considered an adequate length to land virtually any aircraft.
This is a list of the shortest airport runways in the world. While most modern commercial aircraft require a paved runway of at least 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in length, many early aircraft were designed to operate from unprepared strips that could be improvised in small spaces.
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (IATA: SAB, ICAO: TNCS) is an airport on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, Netherlands. Its runway is widely acknowledged as the shortest commercial runway in the world, with a length of 400 m (1,312 ft).
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[248] [76] When ranked by global passenger traffic, Gatwick is the 35th busiest internationally and the eighth busiest airport in Europe. Gatwick is the world's leading low-cost airport [249] and until March 2017 had the world's busiest single-use runway, [nb 10] with a maximum of 55 aircraft movements per hour. [250] [251]
It has two asphalt runways: 13/31, 5,811 ft (1,771 m) long with an ILS, and 5,146 ft (1,569 m) runway (16/34). There is one helipad: H1, 37 x 37 feet (11 x 11 meters). [1] The airport has a control tower, a restaurant, a general aviation center including limited flight training, and a small terminal.
The airport was built on Prosperous Bay Plain, on the east side of Saint Helena, entailing a concrete runway length of 1,950 metres (6,398 ft) [112] with taxiway and apron, an approximately 8-million-cubic-metre (280-million-cubic-foot) rockfill embankment through which a 750-metre (2,460 ft) long reinforced concrete culvert was proposed but ...