List of airports in the United States Virgin Islands
This is a list of airports in the United States Virgin Islands (a U.S. territory), 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 were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Airports
This list contains the following information:
- Location - The city or other location generally associated with the airport.
- FAA - The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- IATA - The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (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 2008, as per FAA records.
Location | FAA | IATA | ICAO | Airport name | Role | Enpl. |
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Commercial Service - Primary Airports | ||||||
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | STT | STT | TIST | Cyril E. King Airport | P-S | 593,589 |
Christiansted, St. Croix | STX | STX | TISX | Henry E. Rohlsen Airport | P-N | 169,665 |
Notable Private-Use Airports | ||||||
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | VI22 | SPB | Charlotte Amalie Harbor Seaplane Base (St. Thomas SPB) | 68,552 | ||
Christiansted, St. Croix | VI32 | SSB | Christiansted Harbor Seaplane Base | 68,642 |
Scheduled commercial service is available at both seaplane bases from Seaborne Airlines.
See also
- Transportation on the United States Virgin Islands
- List of airports by ICAO code: T#TI - U.S. Virgin Islands
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#United States Virgin Islands
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
International:
- "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 2006-01-12.
- "UN Location Codes: Virgin Islands, U.S.". 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 Virgin Islands, U.S. - used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
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