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Fitiuta Airport is a public airport
Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
 located in Fiti‘uta
Fitiuta, American Samoa

Fitiuta, also known as Fiti?uta, is a town on the northeast coast of Tau, American Samoa island, one of the Manua in American Samoa. According to the United States Census, 2000, Fitiuta had a population of 358, down from 454 in 1990....
, a village on the island of Ta‘u
Tau, American Samoa

Ta?u is the largest island in the Manua and the easternmost volcanic island of the Samoan Islands. Ta?u is part of American Samoa. In the early 19th century, the island was sometimes called Opoun....
 in American Samoa
American Samoa

American Samoa is an Territories of the United States of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa....
, an unincorporated territory of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The airport is owned by Government of American Samoa.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier
Location identifier

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services....
 for the FAA
Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S....
 and IATA
International Air Transport Association

The International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered....
, Fitiuta Airport is assigned FAQ by the FAA and FTI by the IATA (which assigned FAQ to Freida River, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
). The airport's ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization

The International Civil Aviation Organization , an agency of the United Nations, codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international scheduled air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth....
 identifier is NSFQ.

uta Airport has one paved runway
Runway

A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can Takeoff and landing. Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface ....
 (12/30) measuring 3,200 x 75 ft.






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Fitiuta Airport is a public airport
Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
 located in Fiti‘uta
Fitiuta, American Samoa

Fitiuta, also known as Fiti?uta, is a town on the northeast coast of Tau, American Samoa island, one of the Manua in American Samoa. According to the United States Census, 2000, Fitiuta had a population of 358, down from 454 in 1990....
, a village on the island of Ta‘u
Tau, American Samoa

Ta?u is the largest island in the Manua and the easternmost volcanic island of the Samoan Islands. Ta?u is part of American Samoa. In the early 19th century, the island was sometimes called Opoun....
 in American Samoa
American Samoa

American Samoa is an Territories of the United States of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa....
, an unincorporated territory of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The airport is owned by Government of American Samoa.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier
Location identifier

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services....
 for the FAA
Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S....
 and IATA
International Air Transport Association

The International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered....
, Fitiuta Airport is assigned FAQ by the FAA and FTI by the IATA (which assigned FAQ to Freida River, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
). The airport's ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization

The International Civil Aviation Organization , an agency of the United Nations, codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international scheduled air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth....
 identifier is NSFQ.

Facilities and aircraft

Fitiuta Airport has one paved runway
Runway

A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can Takeoff and landing. Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface ....
 (12/30) measuring 3,200 x 75 ft. (975 x 23 m).

For 12-month period ending December 31, 2002, the airport had 2,832 aircraft operations, an average of 7 per day, 100% of which were air taxi
Air taxi

An air taxi is a for-hire passenger or cargo aircraft which operates on an on-demand basis. It can be used to mean air charter, or the use of very light jets ....
 flights.

Airlines and destinations

  • Inter Island Airways
    Inter Island Airways

    Inter Island Airways is a Oceania regional airline based in Pago Pago, American Samoa, American Samoa. Inter Island Airways operates scheduled and charter passenger flights in and between American Samoa, Independent Samoa and to neighboring Pacific island countries....
     (Ofu, Pago Pago)


External links

  • showing location of Fiti‘uta village and airport on the island of Ta‘u.


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