Basco Airport Pagtayaban ti Basco Paliparan ng Basco | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines | ||||||||||
| Serves | Batanes | ||||||||||
| Location | Basco, Batan Island | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1930 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 89 m / 291 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 20°27′05″N 121°58′48″E / 20.45139°N 121.98000°E | ||||||||||
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Source: Statistics from eFOI[1] | |||||||||||
Basco Airport (IATA: BSO, ICAO: RPUO) is an airport serving the province of Batanes in the Philippines. It is located in the provincial capital, Basco. It is one of two airports in the Batanes Islands, the other being Itbayat Airport.
The airport is classified as a Class 2 principal, minor domestic airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of non-major airports.
The airport is one of the hubs of Sky Pasada.
Although the airport in the past was briefly served by international flights, the airport is not officially classified as an international airport.
- ^ Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (23 July 2018). "Yearly Passenger, Cargo and Aircraft Movements of all airports in the Philippines 1997–2017". Republic of the Philippines – Freedom of Information Portal. Retrieved 28 September 2018.