is a public aerodrome located about south of

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, Japan.

History

The airport opened on October 13, 1962, as Okayama Airport. It had scheduled service by

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(Tokyo Haneda) and Toa Domestic Airlines (Matsuyama and Miyazaki); however, the runway was too short to accommodate jet service, and the largest aircraft that could reliably use the airport was the

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. On March 11, 1988, concurrently with the opening of new

Okayama Airport is an airport in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is also known as Okayama Momotaro Airport. It is located northwest of central Okayama City and northwest or 30 minutes by bus from Okayama Station. It is about 10 minutes from the Okayama inter ...

, Konan became an airport exclusively for small planes under the present name. A ten-seat Cessna jet overshot the runway at the airport on June 10, 2015, landing in a nearby lake.

Ground transportation

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References

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