NTTO
Hao Airport
UNK
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Name
Hao Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
NTTO / HOI / NTTO
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
3:15 am (TAHT)
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Municipality
Otepa
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Coordinates
18° 4′ 29″ N 140° 56′ 45″ E
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Elevation
10 ft (3 m MSL)
About Hao Airport
Hao Airport (IATA: HOI, ICAO: NTTO) is an airport on Hao Island in French Polynesia. The airport is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the village of Otepa. Its unusually long runway (for the atoll's present population) was constructed to permit large transport aircraft (carrying materials for nuclear tests) to land. Their cargoes would be transported onward to nuclear test sites by ships.
Hao airport was a designated emergency landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle.