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Kalaeloa Airport (IATA: JRF, ICAO: PHJR, FAA LID: JRF), also called John Rodgers Field (the original name of Honolulu International Airport) and formerly Naval Air Station Barbers Point, is a joint civil-military regional airport of the State of Hawaiʻi established on July 1, 1999, to replace the Ford Island NALF facilities which closed on June 30 of the same year.
City served, Island FAA IATA ICAO Airport name Role Enplanements (2019) Commercial service – primary airports: Hilo, Hawaii ITO: ITO PHTO Hilo International Airport: P-S 599,148 Honolulu, Oahu HNL: HNL PHNL Daniel K. Inouye International Airport: P-M 10,017,149 Kahului, Maui OGG: OGG PHOG Kahului Airport: P-M 3,571,660 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii KOA ...
East Island is an island, formerly about 11 acres (45,000 m 2) in area, one-half mile (800 m) long and 400 feet (120 m) wide, now greatly reduced in size. [1] It was the second-largest in the French Frigate Shoals , and is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands , approximately 550 miles (890 km) northwest of Honolulu . [ 2 ]
The airport has had several names over its lifetime. At the time of its opening in 1970, it was named the Ke-āhole Airport, after its geographical location, Keāhole Point, itself named after the ʻāhole fish found in the area. [6] [7] In 1993, the airport was renamed Keāhole-Kona International Airport, after the nearby resort town of Kona. [8]
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport [3] (IATA: HNL, ICAO: PHNL, FAA LID: HNL), also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii. [4] The airport is named after Honolulu native and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Inouye, who represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012 ...
With an area of 4,028 sq mi (10,430 km 2), it is larger than all of the other islands of Hawaii combined, encompassing approximately 62.7% of the entire state's land area. It is also the largest island in the United States. In modern times, Hawaiʻi is known commonly as the "Big Island" to reduce confusion between the island and the state ...
East Honolulu is centered on (21.2891, -157. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.9 km 2), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.0 km 2), or 33.22%, is water.
A set of Interstate Highways on Oʻahu were approved for funding by the US Congress in 1960, a year after Hawaii was admitted as a state. A corridor connecting the Honolulu area to Kāneʻohe was included in the plan and was designated as "Interstate H-3" by the Bureau of Public Roads (now the Federal Highway Administration) on August 29, 1960.