Bancasi Airport,
Butuanon: ''Tugpahanan hong Bancasi'', fil, Paliparan ng Bancasi ), also known as Butuan Airport, is the
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 general area of
Butuan and
Agusan del Norte. It is the only airport in Agusan del Norte and the largest in
Caraga. The airport is classified as an International Airport by the
Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), a body of the
Department of Transportation (DOTr) that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but of all the other airports in the Philippines, except the major international airports.
Improvement projects
The Department of Transport and Communications (DOTC) announced that the airport would receive Php 45.5 million pesos in subsidy for expansion of the apron, improvement and expansion of vehicular parking area, construction of drainage system, and construction of concrete hollow block fence, with bidding scheduled to open to contractors on July 5, 2012. In early March 2023, the Department of Transportation completed an expansion project, which includes a new terminal building that increased the airport's capacity from 248 to 616 passengers.
Airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
* On October 26, 2007,
Philippine Airlines Flight 475
Philippine Airlines Flight 475 was a scheduled passenger flight from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Butuan's Bancasi Airport that overran the runway at Butuan airport.
Accident
At approximately 6:25 a.m. on October 26, 200 ...
from
Manila
Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...
, operated by an
Airbus A320-200
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registered as RP-C3224, overshot the runway of Butuan Airport after landing. Nineteen injuries were reported.
* On February 15, 2014, Cebu Pacific Flight 220, an
Airbus A319-100 registered as RP-C3195, went off the runway of the airport on a flight to
Mactan–Cebu when the nose gear and left main gear departed the paved surface of the runway during a 180-degree backtrack. 105 passengers were on board. No injuries were reported whatsoever.
See also
*
List of airports in the Philippines
This is a list of airports in the Philippines, grouped by type.
Classification
Regulation over airports and aviation in the Philippines lies with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). The CAAP's classification system, introduce ...
Notes
References
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Airports in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Butuan
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