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Chuuk Airport (Formerly Moen Airfield 1) in February 1944 from a TBF Avenger of VT-6 from the USS Intrepid CV-11. Chuuk International Airport was originally built by Japan between November and December 1942. Back then it was known as Harushima Airfield to the Japanese or Moen Air Field 1.
Airport name Chuuk: Chuuk: PTKK TKK Chuuk International Airport: Kosrae: Kosrae: PTSA KSA Kosrae International Airport (Caroline Islands Airport) Pohnpei: Pohnpei: PTPN PNI Pohnpei International Airport: Ulithi: Yap - ULI Ulithi Airport: Yap: Yap: PTYA YAP Yap International Airport
Air Niugini Flight 73 was a scheduled service from Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, via Chuuk, FSM. On 28 September 2018, a Boeing 737, operated by Air Niugini, landed short of the runway at Chuuk International Airport in Weno (FSM) and came to rest in Chuuk Lagoon. Local people in small boats ...
Chuuk International Airport. Weno has the only airport in the state, Chuuk International Airport. The road system is not well established in some parts of the island. No public transportation exists, but visitors can use a small taxi to cruise around the island. [citation needed] There is one commercial shipyard for cargo ships and passenger ...
Chuuk Lagoon is part of the larger Caroline Islands group. The area consists of eleven major islands (corresponding to the eleven municipalities of Truk lagoon, which are Tol, Udot, Fala-Beguets, Romanum, and Eot of Faichuk group, and Weno, Fefen, Dublon, Uman, Param, and Tsis of Nomoneas group) and 46 smaller ones within the lagoon, plus 41 on the fringing coral reef, and is known today as ...
Chuuk or Truk may refer to: Chuuk State, one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia; Chuuk Lagoon, or Chuuk Atoll, a sheltered body of water and island group in the central Pacific; Chuuk International Airport, an airport located on Weno, in Chuuk State, Micronesia; Chuukese language, a language of the Austronesian language family
Satawan Atoll is an atoll located about 250 kilometers (160 mi) southeast of Chuuk Lagoon proper. [1] Geographically it is part of the Nomoi or Mortlock Islands in the Carolines and administratively it is part of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia. About 3,000 people live on a land area of 5 square kilometers (1.9 sq mi).
The main population center of Chuuk State is the Chuuk Lagoon, a large archipelago with mountainous islands surrounded by a string of islets on a barrier reef. [citation needed] The two major geographical and dialectic divisions of the Chuuk Lagoon are Faichuuk, the western islands, and Namoneas, the eastern islands.