Guanaja Airport
Encyclopedia
Guanaja Airport is an airport
serving Guanaja
, located in the Bay Islands Department in Honduras
.
Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands (Islas de la Bahía) located in the Caribbean
, approximately 70 km (37.8 nmi; 43.5 mi) off the north coast of Honduras and 12 km (6.5 nmi; 7.5 mi) from the island of Roatan
.
of 49 ft (14.9 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 12/30 with an asphalt
surface measuring 1220 metre.
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
serving Guanaja
Guanaja
Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands of Honduras, and is in the Caribbean. It is about 70 km off the north coast of Honduras, and 12 km from the island of Roatan. One of the cays off Guanaja, also called Guanaja or Bonnaca or Low Cay , is near the main island, and contains most of the...
, located in the Bay Islands Department in Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
.
Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands (Islas de la Bahía) located in the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
, approximately 70 km (37.8 nmi; 43.5 mi) off the north coast of Honduras and 12 km (6.5 nmi; 7.5 mi) from the island of Roatan
Roatán
Roatán, located between the islands of Útila and Guanaja, is the largest of Honduras' Bay Islands. The island was formerly known as Ruatan and Rattan...
.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 49 ft (14.9 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 12/30 with an asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
surface measuring 1220 metre.