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Rota Airport
Airport Directory » Northern Mariana Islands » Rota » Rota AirportAirport information for Rota AirportCountry: Northern Mariana IslandsLocation: Rota Coordinates: 14.10.00N / 145.15.00E IATA Code: ROP Timezone: GMT +10 Direct flights form Rota Airport Direct flights to Rota Airport Find connecting flights to Rota Airport Find connecting flights from Rota Airport |
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Rota International Airport (IATA: ROP, ICAO: PGRO, FAA LID: GRO) is a public airport turn up on Rota Island in the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), near the small town of Sinapalo. The airport is owned by Commonwealth Ports Authority.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter place identifier for the FAA and IATA, Rota International Airport is portioned GRO by the FAA and ROP by the IATA (which allotted GRO to Girona-Costa Brava Airport in Girona, Spain).
Facilities and aircraft
Rota International Airport covers an area of 820 acres (324 ha) which incorporates 1 paved landing track (9/27) measure out 6,000 x 150 foot (1,829 x 46 m).
For 12-month time period finish March 31, 2006, the airport had 6,550 aircraft functioning, an mean of 17 per solar day: 94% air cab, 4% civil aviation and 2% armed forces.
Since the CNMI is a separate in-migration and usages legal power, Rota International Airport is a designated port of entry staffed by the CNMI Division of Immigration and the CNMI Division of Customs.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) set about its Rota functioning in March 2006. After the creative activity of TSA in 2002 but before Rota Airport was "federalised" in 2006, riders from Rota had to be tested upon reaching on Guam or Saipan. The want of TSA at Rota Airport was a nuisance for riders transiting from Guam through Rota to Saipan, who had to run across showing (either usages or security) at all 3 points.
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