The CIA World Factbook Edition 1994 Communications

Airports In 36 editions of 36.

Airports was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1994 edition carries it in 10 entries, in its Communications section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 1994 edition
10
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Airports” (1990 to 2025), and under 2 other headings in a few entries, mostly where the source split this field into parts.

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1994

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Antarctic Region

1 entry

Antarctica

  • 42 landing facilities at different locations operated by 15 national governments party to the Treaty;
  • one additional air facility operated by commercial (nongovernmental) tourist organization;
  • helicopter pads at 28 of these locations;
  • runways at 10 locations are gravel, sea ice, glacier ice, or compacted snow surface suitable for wheeled fixed-wing aircraft;
  • no paved runways;
  • 16 locations have snow-surface skiways limited to use by ski-equipped planes--11 runways/skiways 1,000 to 3,000 m, 3 runways/skiways less than 1,000 m, 5 runways/skiways greater than 3,000 m, and 7 of unspecified or variable length;
  • airports generally subject to severe restrictions and limitations resulting from extreme seasonal and geographic conditions;
  • airports do not meet ICAO standards;
  • advance approval from the respective governmental or non-governmental operating organization required for landing

Europe

2 entries

Liechtenstein

none

Monaco

1 usable airfield with permanent-surface runways

Oceania

5 entries

Baker Island

1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m

Howland Island

airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan - they left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island, but were never seen again; the airstrip is no longer serviceable

Kingman Reef

lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938

Pitcairn Islands

none

Tokelau

none; lagoon landings by amphibious aircraft from Western Samoa

Southeast Asia

2 entries

Macau

none usable, 1 under construction; 1 seaplane station

Paracel Islands

1 on Woody Island

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1994, “Airports”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/airports/1994.

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