Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
| Guam
International Airport Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport |
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|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: GUM – ICAO: PGUM – FAA: GUM | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | A.B. Won Pat Guam Int'l Airport Authority | ||
| Serves | Guam | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 297 ft / 91 m | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 6L/24R | 10,015 | 3,053 | Asphalt/Concrete |
| 6R/24L | 10,014 | 3,052 | Asphalt/Concrete |
| Statistics (2006) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 36,948 | ||
| Based aircraft | 74 | ||
| Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport (IATA: GUM, ICAO: PGUM), also known as Guam International Airport, is an airport located in Tamuning and Barrigada, three miles east of the capital city of Hagåtña (formerly Agana) in the U.S. territory of Guam. It is named for Antonio Borja Won Pat, the first delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives, and is operated by the A.B. Won Pat Guam International Airport Authority (GIAA), an agency of the Government of Guam.
The airport is a hub for Continental Micronesia and the cargo carrier Asia Pacific Airlines.
History
The airport's history began as Agana Naval Air Station (Brewer Field) after World War II. Operations of the civilian terminal (Guam International Air Terminal) was passed onto the Government of Guam's Department of Commerce in 1969. In 1975, the Guam International Airport Authority (GIAA) was created as a separate agency. After Agana NAS was closed in April 1995, GIAA took over the entire airport's operations.
The first passenger terminal building (now the unused Commuter Terminal) was opened in 1982. The current, much larger terminal building was opened in phases between 1996 and 1998.
Airlines and destinations
- All Nippon Airways (Osaka-Kansai)
- China Airlines (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Continental Airlines
- Continental Micronesia (Cairns, Chuuk, Denpasar/Bali, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Kosrae, Kwajalein, Majuro, Manila, Nagoya-Centrair, Niigata, Okayama, Palau, Pohnpei, Sapporo-Chitose, Sendai, Tokyo-Narita, Yap)
- Continental Connection operated by Cape Air (Rota, Saipan)
- Freedom Air (Rota, Saipan)
- Japan Airlines
- JALways (Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
- Korean Air (Busan, Seoul-Incheon)
- Northwest Airlines (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
- Philippine Airlines (Manila)
Disasters
On December 9, 1972, United States Air Force C-130E 64-0505, c.n. 3989, of the 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, crashed and burned, landing at Naval Air Station Brewer Field, Guam.
On June 4, 1976, an Air Manila Lockheed L-188 Electra L-188A (RP-C1061) crashed at just after takeoff. NTSB report # AAR-77-06. NTSB report [[1]]
On August 6, 1997, Korean Air Flight 801 crashed on final approach 5 miles southwest of the airport, causing 228 fatalities. Only 26 passengers survived.
References
- ^ FAA Airport Master Record for GUM (Form 5010 PDF), retrieved 2007-03-15
- Lars Olausson, Lockheed Hercules Production List 1954-2007, self-published, Satenäs, Sweden, March 2006, no ISBN, page 50.
External links
- Guam International Airport (official site)
- Guide to Guam Airport
- Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport at WikiMapia
- FAA Airport Diagram (PDF)
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for PGUM
- FlightAware: PGUM Airport Information and Live Flight Tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PGUM
- ASN accident history for GUM
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