List of airports in the Northern Mariana Islands
This is a list of airports in the Northern Mariana Islands (a U.S. Commonwealth), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that used to be public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or airports assigned an International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code.
Airports
This list contains the following information:
- Location - The village or island generally associated with the airport.
- FAA - The location identifier assigned by the FAA.
- IATA - The airport code assigned by the IATA. Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
- ICAO - The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
- Airport name - The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.
- Role - One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2009-2013 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report and updated based on FAA Passenger Boarding Data:
- P: Commercial Service - Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types:
- L: Large Hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- M: Medium Hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- S: Small Hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- N: Non-Hub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
- CS: Commercial Service - Non-Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
- R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
- GA: General Aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
- P: Commercial Service - Primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types:
- Enpl. - The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2013, as per FAA records.
| LOCATION | FAA | IATA | ICAO | AIRPORT | ROLE | ENPL. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial Service - Primary Airports | ||||||
| Obyan, Saipan Island | GSN | SPN | PGSN | Saipan International Airport (Francisco C. Ada) | P-S | 448,177 |
| Rota Island | GRO | ROP | PGRO | Rota International Airport | P-N | 10,092 |
| Commercial Service - Non-Primary Airports | ||||||
| Tinian Island | TNI | TIQ | PGWT | Tinian International Airport (West Tinian) | CS | 5,283 |
| General Aviation Airports | ||||||
| Shomu-Shon, Pagan Island | TT01 | Pagan Airstrip | GA | |||
| Former Military Airfields | ||||||
| Tinian Island | North Field (closed) |
See also
- List of airports by ICAO code: P#PG - Mariana Islands
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: Oceania#Northern Mariana Islands (United States)
References
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
- FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
- National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, updated 15 October 2008
- Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2008, updated 18 December 2009
- FAA Order JO 7350.8K - Location Identifiers, effective 29 July 2010
Regional:
International:
- "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 2006-01-12.
- "UN Location Codes: Northern Mariana Islands". UN/LOCODE 2009-2. UNECE. 2010-02-08. - includes IATA codes
Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list:
- Aviation Safety Network - used to check IATA airport codes
- Great Circle Mapper: Airports in the Northern Mariana Islands - used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
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