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Henry E. Rohlsen Airport( 17°42′06″N 64°48′06″W / 17.7016°N 64.8017°W / 17.7016; -64.8017) (IATA: STX, ICAO: TISX, FAA LID: STX) is a public airport located six miles (10 km) southwest of Christiansted on the island of St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.[1] The airport is named after Henry E. Rohlsen, a St. Croix native who was one of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
It is a small international airport that hosts mainly inter-Caribbean flights. The airport, which used to be one of the hubs for Aero Virgin Islands back in the 1970s and 1980s, has the capability to receive jets up to the size of the Boeing 747s. It was formerly known as Alexander Hamilton International Airport.
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Henry E. Rohlsen Airport covers an area of 1,455 acres (589 ha) which contains one asphalt paved runway (10/28) measuring 10,004 x 150 ft (3,049 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 13,672 aircraft operations, an average of 37 per day: 68% air taxi, 25% general aviation, 7% scheduled commercial and 1% military. In the same period, there were also 31 aircraft based at this airport, including 15 multi-engine, nine single-engine, three jets, three military aircraft and one helicopter.[1]
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- ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for STX (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-07-05
[edit] World War II
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force stationed the 12th Bombardment Squadron (25th Bombardment Group) at the airport for antisubmarine patrols flying B-18 Bolo aircraft from 8 November 1941-10 Nov 1942.
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