Kōchi Ryōma Airport

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Coordinates: 33°32′46″N 133°40′10″E / 33.54611, 133.66944

Kōchi Ryōma Airport
高知龍馬空港
IATA: KCZ – ICAO: RJOK
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Kochi Airport
Location Nankoku, Kōchi, Japan
Elevation AMSL 42 ft / 13 m
Website www.kochiap.co.jp
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/32 2,500 8,203 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Kōchi Ryōma Airport (高知龍馬空港) (IATA: KCZ, ICAO: RJOK), also known as Kōchi Airport (高知空港), is a regional airport in Nankoku, a city in the Kōchi Prefecture of Japan. It is located on the southeastern coast, near the city of Kōchi.

The 120-hectare (297-acre) airport has a single runway handling small to medium size aircraft. The 10,900-square-metre (117,327 sq ft) two story terminal building is located to the north side of the runway. The arrivals level is on the first floor and departures on the second. There are 14 retail stores in the small terminal building. There is an observation deck on the third floor of the building. Transportation from the airport are by car, taxi or bus.

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[edit] History

Kochi Airport was originally built in 1944 as Kochi Airfield of the Japanese Imperial Navy and from 1945 to 1952 the airport was under command of US forces. The airfield became a civilian airport in 1952 and first flights in 1954.

The runway was expanded in 1960 and 1980 and plans are in works to extend it again to 2,500 metres (8,202 ft) to handle larger aircraft.

In November 2003 it the became the first airport to Japan to be named after a person: Bakumatsu period leader Sakamoto Ryōma.[3]

[edit] Facts

  • 2,400,000 passengers annually (1,932,000 in 2000)
  • 6,850 long tons (6,960 t) of cargo annually (2000)
  • 13,500 landings annually (2000)
  • 3 gates handling 37 aircraft

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Incidents and accidents

13 March 2007, All Nippon Airways Flight 1603, bound from Osaka to Kōchi, landed safely at the Kochi Airport after the front wheel of the plane failed to deploy. As a result, ANA's fleet of thirteen Bombardier DHC-8 aircraft were grounded for emergency inspections.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Airport information for RJOK at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
  2. ^ Airport information for KCZ at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
  3. ^ "Japan's Kochi airport named after samurai with six-shooter", ThingsAsian.com, 2003-11-16.
  4. ^ Kochi destinations
  5. ^ Japanese airline grounds Bombardier fleet after plane makes emergency landing - All News Radio online - Obtained March 14, 2007.

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