Iejima Airport
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Iejima Airport 伊江島空港 | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Ie, Iejima, Japan | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 238 ft / 73 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°43′21″N 127°47′13″E / 26.72250°N 127.78694°E | ||||||||||
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  RORE  RORE | |||||||||||
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Iejima Airport (伊江島空港, Iejima Kūkō) (IATA: IEJ, ICAO: RORE) is located on the island of Iejima in Ie, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The runways were part of the Ie Shima Airfield complex built during World War II. In 2015, the government was planning for Iejima Airport to have a new terminal and to expand the runway to 2,000 meters in length to enable the airport to accommodate jet service.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive
- ^ "Iejima Airport Statistics" (PDF) (Press release). Osaka Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Civil Aviation Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
External links
[edit]- Iejima Airport Archived 1 September 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- Accident history for IEJ at Aviation Safety Network
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