Nagasaki Airport

Nagasaki Airport 長崎空港 Nagasaki Kūkō
IATA: NGS ICAO: RJFU
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Operator	Civil Aviation Bureau
Serves	Nagasaki, Japan
Location	Ōmura, Nagasaki
Elevation AMSL	8 ft / 2 m
Coordinates	32°55′01″N 129°54′49″E / 32.91694°N 129.91361°E / 32.91694; 129.91361Coordinates: 32°55′01″N 129°54′49″E / 32.91694°N 129.91361°E / 32.91694; 129.91361
Map
RJFU Location in Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 3,000 9,843 Asphalt/Concrete 18/36 1,200 3,937 Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 3,008,599 Cargo (metric tonnes) 14,092
Source: Japanese AIP at AIS Japan Osaka Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Civil Aviation Bureau

Nagasaki Airport (長崎空港, Nagasaki Kūkō^?) (IATA: NGS, ICAO: RJFU) is an international airport located 4 km (2.5 mi) west of the railway station in the city of Ōmura and 18 km (11 mi) north northeast of the Nagasaki railway station in the city of Nagasaki,Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

The airport terminal and runway 14/32 are on an island, and the shorter runway 18/36 (now used by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force for helicopter flights) is on the mainland.

The mainland portion of the airport opened as a military aerodrome in 1923, and commenced civilian joint use as Omura Airport (大村空港) in 1955.

The current island runway and terminal opened on May 1, 1975. Although Nagasaki is superficially similar to Japan's other island airports, Kansai International Airport, Kobe Airport, Kitakyushu Airport, and Chūbu Centrair International Airport, Nagasaki's island existed (in a radically different shape) before the airport was constructed. Constructing the airport required flattening the island's hills and forming landfill around its shore, expanding it from 0.9 to 1.54 km² (0.35 to 0.59 sq mi).