Tinian International Airport , also known as West Tinian Airport, is a public

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located on

Tinian Tinian ( or ; old Japanese name: 天仁安島, ''Tenian-shima'') is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Together with uninhabited neighboring Aguiguan, it forms Tinian Municipality, one of th ...

Island in the

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Commonwealth of the

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. This airport is owned by Commonwealth Ports Authority. This airport is assigned a three-letter

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of TNI by the

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, but the

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is TIQ (IATA assigned TNI to

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in India). The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) airport code is PGWT. Tinian International Airport is the hub of

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Facilities and aircraft

The airport was established on the site of the

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era West Field. Tinian International Airport covers an area of which contains one paved

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(8/26) measuring 8,600 x 150 ft (2,621 x 46 m). For 12-month period ending March 31, 2006, the airport had 17,829 aircraft operations, an average of 48 per day: 84%

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, 16%

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and <1% military. The head office of

is in Hangar 1 at the airport. USMC-120523-M-BC491-200

In May 2012, the

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operated its F/A-18D Hornets from the airport using M-31 expeditionary aircraft

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systems similar to arresting systems used aboard aircraft carriers during Exercise Geiger Fury. In 2019 the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands acting through the Commonwealth Ports Authority and the

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signed an agreement to operate a divert airfield at the airport in case

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is unable to be used.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

Commonwealth Ports Authority: Tinian International Airport
* {{authority control Tinian Airports in the Northern Mariana Islands