Rota International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Commonwealth Ports Authority | ||||||||||
| Location | Rota Island | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 607 ft / 185 m | ||||||||||
| Website | cpa.gov.mp/rotarpt.asp | ||||||||||
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 Rota is the southernmost island | |||||||||||
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Rota International Airport (IATA: ROP, ICAO: PGRO, FAA LID: GRO), also known as Benjamin Taisacan Manglona International Airport,[2] is a public airport located on Rota Island in the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), near the village of Sinapalo. The airport is owned by the Commonwealth Ports Authority.[1]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Rota International Airport is assigned GRO by the FAA and ROP by the IATA (which assigned GRO to Girona-Costa Brava Airport in Girona, Spain). [3] [4]
Facilities and aircraft
Rota International Airport covers an area of 800 acres (324 ha) which contains one paved runway (9/27) measuring 6,000 x 150 ft (1,829 x 46 m).[1] For a twelve-month period ending March 31, 2006, the airport had 6,550 aircraft operations, an average of 17 per day: 94% air taxi, 4% general aviation and 2% military.[1] Since the CNMI is a separate customs and U.S. immigration jurisdiction, Rota International Airport is a designated port of entry staffed by the CNMI Division of Customs and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (which conducts immigration inspection only).
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began its Rota operations in March 2006.[5] After the creation of TSA in 2002 but before it began operating at Rota Airport in 2006, passengers from Rota had to be screened upon arrival on Guam or Saipan.[6] The lack of TSA at Rota Airport was a nuisance for passengers transiting from Guam through Rota to Saipan, who had to encounter screenings (either customs or security) at all three points.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Star Marianas Air[7] | Guam, Saipan |
| United Express | Guam, Saipan |
References
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for GRO PDF, retrieved 2007-03-15
- ^ New name of Rota airport unveiled, Saipan Tribune, April 14, 2012
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: ROP / PGRO - Rota Island, Northern Mariana Islands
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: GRO / LEGE - Girona, Spain
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://www.starmarianasair.com/
External links
- Commonwealth Ports Authority: Rota International Airport
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for ROP
- AirNav airport information for PGRO
- ASN accident history for ROP
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PGRO
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for ROP