Fitiuta Airport

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Coordinates: 14°12′58″S 169°25′25″W / -14.21611, -169.42361

Fitiuta Airport
IATA: FTI – ICAO: NSFQ – FAA: FAQ
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Government of American Samoa
Location Fitiuta, American Samoa
Elevation AMSL 110 ft / 34 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 3,200 975 Concrete
Statistics (2002)
Aircraft operations 2,832
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Fitiuta Airport (IATA: FTI, ICAO: NSFQ, FAA LID: FAQ) is a public airport located in Fiti‘uta, a village on the island of Ta‘ū in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States. The airport is owned by Government of American Samoa.[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Fitiuta Airport is assigned FAQ by the FAA and FTI by the IATA (which assigned FAQ to Freida River, Papua New Guinea). The airport's ICAO identifier is NSFQ. [2] [3]

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[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Fitiuta Airport has one paved runway (12/30) measuring 3,200 x 75 ft. (975 x 23 m).[1]

For 12-month period ending December 31, 2002, the airport had 2,832 aircraft operations, an average of 7 per day, 100% of which were air taxi flights.[1]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for FAQ (Form 5010 PDF), retrieved 2007-03-15
  2. ^ Great Circle Mapper: NSFQ - Fitiuta, American Samoa
  3. ^ Aviation Safety Network: FAQ - Freida River, Papua New Guinea
  4. ^ Inter Island Airways - Routes

[edit] External links


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