Hao Airport is an airport on Hao Island in

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. The airport is 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

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) to land. Their cargoes would be transported onward to nuclear test sites by ships. Hao airport was a designated emergency landing site for the

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.Space Shuttle Emergency Landing Sites
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Airlines and destinations

Passenger

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