Jorge Abad Airport (

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: ''Paliparang Jorge Abad'', Ilocano: ''Pagtayaban ti Jorge Abad''), also known as Itbayat Airport, is an

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 surfa ...

serving the island of

Itbayat Itbayat, officially the Municipality of Itbayat, ( ivv, Kavahayan nu Itbayat; tl, Bayan ng Itbayat), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Batanes, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 3,128 people. Itbay ...

, the largest island in the province of Batanes,

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. The province's only other airport,

Basco Airport Basco Airport (Filipino language, Filipino: ''Paliparan ng Basco'', Ilocano language, Ilocano: ''Pagtayaban ti Basco'') is an airport serving the province of Batanes in the Philippines. It is located in the provincial capital, Basco, Batanes, Ba ...

, is located in the provincial capital, Basco, on

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. The airport is classified as a community airport by the

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(CAAP), a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of non-major airports.

History

The northernmost airport in the Philippines was renamed in March 2017 through a

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(municipal council) resolution after Jorge Abad, the first Ivatan cabinet member who was appointed in 1955 as Secretary of Public Works. His son,

Florencio Abad Florencio "Butch" Barsana Abad (born July 13, 1954) is a Filipino lawyer and politician. Having held many cabinet-level ranks in the past, he was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III as Secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Ma ...

, was instrumental in sourcing the funds for the airport construction during his time as congressional representative for Batanes. Manual labor was used during the airport's construction to level the uneven terrain, since the inaccessibility of the island in the 1990s made heavy equipment unavailable for use.

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