Lanai Airport , also written as Lānai Airport, is a state-owned public-use

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located three

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s or about 3.4 miles (6 km) southwest of the

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Lanai City Lāna‘i City is a census-designated place (CDP) on the island of Lāna‘i, in Maui County, Hawai‘i, United States. The population was 3,332 at the 2020 census. Lāna‘i City is the island's commercial center. Many of the island's restau ...

(Lānai City), in

Maui County, Hawaii Maui County, officially the County of Maui, is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It consists of the islands of Maui, Lānai, Molokai (except for a portion of Molokai that comprises Kalawao County), Kahoolawe, and Molokini. The latter two a ...

. The airport began regular operations in 1930. It is the only airport serving the island of

Lanai Lanai ( haw, Lānai, , , also ,) is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain. It is colloquially known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple pl ...

(Lānai). It is included in the

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(FAA)

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for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of 505

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s (204 ha) at an

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of 1,308 feet (399 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 3/21 with an

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surface measuring 5,001 by 150 feet (1,524 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2016, the airport had 6,326 aircraft operations, an average of 17 per day: 65%

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, 25% scheduled commercial, 9%

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and 1%

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. In April 2022, there were no aircraft based at this airport. The only commercial airline,

Mokulele Airlines Southern Airways Express, doing business as Mokulele Airlines, is an American commuter airline operating in Hawaii. The airline operates scheduled inter-island and charter flights among all Hawaiian islands with airports. Mokulele Airlines wa ...

, operates Cessna Grand Caravan 208EX aircraft into Lanai.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Accidents and incidents

References

External links

Lanai Airport

Hawaii State Department of Transportation

Topographic map
from

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