Henry E. Rohlsen Airport

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates: 17°42′06″N 064°48′06″W / 17.70167, -64.80167

Henry E. Rohlsen Airport
IATA: STX – ICAO: TISX – FAA: STX
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Virgin Islands Port Authority
Location		Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Elevation AMSL		74 ft / 23 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
10/28	10,004	3,049	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			13,672
Based aircraft			31
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (IATA: STX, ICAO: TISX, FAA LID: STX) is a public airport located six miles (10 km) southwest of Christiansted on the island of St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.^[1]

It is a small international airport that is a mini center of Caribbean flights. The airport, which used to be one of the hubs for Aero Virgin Islands back in the 1970s and 1980s, has the capability to receive jets up to the size of the Boeing 747s. It was formerly known as Alexander Hamilton International Airport.

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Airlines and destinations
3 Cargo
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Henry E. Rohlsen Airport covers an area of 1,455 acres (589 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (10/28) measuring 10,004 x 150 ft (3,049 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 13,672 aircraft operations, an average of 37 per day: 68% air taxi, 25% general aviation, 7% scheduled commercial and 1% military. In the same period, there were also 31 aircraft based at this airport, including 15 multi-engine, nine single-engine, three jets, three military aircraft and one helicopter.^[1]