Basco Airport (

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: ''Paliparan ng Basco'', Ilocano: ''Pagtayaban ti Basco'') is an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

serving the province of

Batanes Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes ( ivv, Provinsiya nu Batanes; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; fil, Lalawigan ng Batanes, ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It i ...

in the

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. It is located in the provincial capital, Basco, and is one of two airports in the

Batanes Islands Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes ( ivv, Provinsiya nu Batanes; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; fil, Lalawigan ng Batanes, ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It i ...

, the other being Itbayat Airport. The airport is classified as a Class 2 principal (minor domestic) airport by the

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(CAAP), a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports. The airport is one of the hubs of

Sky Pasada WCC Aviation, Inc., operating as Sky Pasada, is an airline based in Binalonan, Pangasinan, Binalonan, Pangasinan, Philippines owned and operated by the Guico family. Founded in 2010, it primarily serves the northern Luzon provinces of Batanes, Cag ...

. Although the airport in the past was briefly served by international flights, the airport is not officially classified as an international airport.

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