Hao Airport
Airport on Hao Island, French Polynesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the airport in the United States of America with the IATA code HAO, see Butler County Regional Airport.
Hao Airport (IATA: HOI, ICAO: NTTO) is an airport on Hao Island in French Polynesia. The airport is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the village of Otepa. Its unusually long runway (for the atoll's present population) was constructed to permit large transport aircraft (carrying materials for nuclear tests) to land. Their cargoes would be transported onward to nuclear test sites by ships.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | DSEAC Polynésie Française | ||||||||||
Serves | Hao Island | ||||||||||
Location | Hao Island, French Polynesia | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 15 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 18°04′29″S 140°56′45″W | ||||||||||
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Hao airport was a designated emergency landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle.[3]