Ua Pou Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesHakahau, Ua Pou
LocationMarquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Elevation AMSL16 ft / 5 m
Coordinates09°21′06″S 140°04′40″W / 9.35167°S 140.07778°W / -9.35167; -140.07778
Map
UAP is located in French Polynesia
UAP
UAP
Location of the airport in French Polynesia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/33 830 2,723 Paved
Sources: Great Circle Mapper [1]

Ua Pou Airport is an airport on Ua Pou in French Polynesia (IATA: UAP, ICAO: NTMP). The airport is 11 km northwest of the village of Hakahau. As of 2021 it received 3900 passengers a year.[2]

The runway is short, narrow, and slopes uphill, making Ua Pou an Altiport.[3] Aircraft can only land when arriving from the sea, and can only take off towards the sea, whatever the prevailing wind.[3] The runway is 846m long, with a 30m drop.[4]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Tahiti Atuona, Nuku Hiva, Ua Huka

Statistics

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Annual passenger traffic at UAP airport. See Wikidata query.

References

  1. ^ Great Circle Mapper - Ua Pou Airport
  2. ^ "Statistiques annuelles: Aéroport de Ua Pou". UAF&FA. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Evasan depuis Ua Pou : l'équipage du Casa de l'armée a fait des prouesses" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Ua Pou – Le départ" (in French). A la rencontre du Soleil. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

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