Kona Airport

Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole Kahua Mokulele Kauʻāina o Kona
IATA: KOA ICAO: PHKO FAA LID: KOA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Hawaii Department of Transportation
Serves	Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Location	Kalaoa, Hawaii
Hub for	Mokulele Airlines
Elevation AMSL	47 ft / 14 m
Coordinates	19°44′20″N 156°02′44″W / 19.73889°N 156.04556°W / 19.73889; -156.04556 (Kona International Airport)Coordinates: 19°44′20″N 156°02′44″W / 19.73889°N 156.04556°W / 19.73889; -156.04556 (Kona International Airport)
Website	hawaii.gov/koa
Map
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 17/35 11,000 3,353 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Aircraft operations: 129,898 Passengers: 2,807,118 Cargo (U.S. tons): 103,675 Based aircraft: 48
Source: Federal Aviation Administration, Kona Airport

Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole (IATA: KOA, ICAO: PHKO, FAA LID: KOA) is on the Island of Hawaiʻi, in Kalaoa CDP, Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The airport serves leeward, or Western Hawaiʻi island, including the town of Kailua-Kona and the resorts of the North Kona and South Kohala districts.

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a small-hub primary commercial service facility.

Much of the runway is built on a relatively recent lava flow: the 1801 Huʻehuʻe flow from Hualālai. This flow extended the shoreline out an estimated 1 mi (1.6 km), adding some 4 km² (1.5 sq mi) of land to the island and creating Keāhole Point. The new airport opened on July 1, 1970, with a single 6,500-foot (2.0 km) runway; the previous smaller airstrip was converted into the Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area.

Construction crews from Bechtel Corporation had used three million pounds of dynamite to flatten the lava flow (which was riddled with Lava tubes) within 13 months.