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Regulation of airports and aviation in the Philippines lies with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). The CAAP's classification system, introduced in 2008, rationalizes the previous Air Transportation Office (ATO) system of airport classification, pursuant to the Philippine Transport Strategic Study and the 1992 Civil Aviation Master Plan. [1]
Dodoma Airport (IATA: DOD, ICAO: HTDO) is an airport serving the Tanzanian capital of Dodoma located in the Dodoma Region. [2] It has a runway that's 2,450 metres (8,038 feet) long, at an elevation of 1,109 metres (3,638 feet).
Located in Barangay San Isidro in the neighboring municipality of San Luis, some 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from Baler, [1] the airport is classified as a community airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, [4] the body of the Department of Transportation responsible for the operations of all public airports in the Philippines ...
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA; Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Maynila) is a government-owned and controlled corporation and agency under the Department of Transportation of the Philippines responsible for the management of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) formerly Manila International Airport.
On June 5, 1948, Republic Act No. 224 created the National Airports Corporation which was charged with the management and operations of all national airports. [7] On June 20, 1952, Republic Act No. 776, otherwise known as the Civil Aeronautics Act of the Philippines, reorganized the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
The planned airport would be located in Msalato Ward, approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi), by road, north of the central business district of the city of Dodoma. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The airport would occupy 45 square kilometres (17 sq mi) of real estate.
However, as of 2022, the move was planned to be reversed as a result of a survey conducted among DOTr employees. The department still owns office spaces at the Columbia Tower, while the Office of the Secretary is currently located in the head office of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines in Pasay. [5] [6]
It is one of two airports in the Philippines named after a member of the Romualdez family, the other being Imelda R. Marcos Airport in Mati after Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, the wife of the late president Ferdinand Marcos. On November 8, 2013, the airport was largely destroyed due to the onslaught of Typhoon Haiyan. [2]