Henderson Field (Midway Atoll)

For other uses, see Henderson Field (disambiguation).
Henderson Field
IATA: MDY – ICAO: PMDY
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Fish and Wildlife Service
Operator American Airports Corp.
(under sub-contract with Chugach Industries, Inc.)
Serves Midway Atoll
Location Sand Island, Midway Atoll
Elevation AMSL 18 ft / 5 m
Coordinates
Website www.americanairports.com
Maps
Location on Sand Island. Former runways in gray.
PMDY
Location in the Pacific Ocean
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
6/24 7,800 2,377 Asphalt
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Henderson Field (IATA: MDY, ICAO: PMDY) is a public airport located on Sand Island in Midway Atoll, an unincorporated territory of the United States. The airport was once used as an emergency diversion point for ETOPS operations. It is subsidized by Boeing. It still serves this capacity, most recently in June 2011.[2]

Contents

Facilities

Henderson Field covers 1,200 acres (486 ha) and has one runway:

Incidents and accidents

References

  1. ^ a b FAA Airport Master Record for MDY (Form 5010 PDF)
  2. ^ Delta flight makes emergency landing at Midway Atoll
  3. ^ "Delta 747 Forced to Land at Midway". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. 18 June 2011. http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20110618__Delta_747_forced_to_land__at_Midway.html. Retrieved 19 June 2011. 

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