The CIA World Factbook Edition 2005 Transportation
Airports In 36 editions of 36.
Airports was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2005 edition carries it in 256 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2005 edition
- 256
- 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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World
1 entryAfrica
61 entriesAntarctic Region
3 entriesAntarctica
- there are no developed public access airports or landing facilities;
- 30 stations, operated by 16 national governments party to the Antarctic Treaty, have restricted aircraft landing facilities for either helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft;
- commercial enterprises operate two additional aircraft landing facilities;
- helicopter pads are available at 27 stations;
- runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft;
- of these, one is greater than 3 km in length, six are between 2 km and 3 km in length, three are between 1 km and 2 km in length, three are less than 1 km in length, and two are of unknown length;
- snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations;
- of these, four are greater than 3 km in length, three are between 2 km and 3 km in length, two are between 1 km and 2 km in length, two are less than 1 km in length, and four are of unknown length;
- aircraft landing facilities generally subject to severe restrictions and limitations resulting from extreme seasonal and geographic conditions;
- aircraft landing facilities do not meet ICAO standards;
- advance approval from the respective governmental or nongovernmental operating organization required for using their facilities;
- landed aircraft are subject to inspection in accordance with Article 7, Antarctic Treaty;
- guidelines for the operation of aircraft near concentrations of birds in Antarctica were adopted in 2004;
- relevant legal instruments and authorization procedures adopted by states party to the Antarctic Treaty regulating access to the Antarctic Treaty area, that is to all areas between 60 and 90 degrees of latitude South, have to be complied with (see information under "Legal System");
- an Antarctic Flight Information Manual (AFIM) providing up-to-date details of Antarctic air facilities and procedures is maintained and published by the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (2004 est.)
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesCentral America and the Caribbean
31 entriesEurope
47 entriesMiddle East
17 entriesGaza Strip
2 (2001)
note: includes Gaza International Airport (GIA), inaugurated on 24 November 1998 as part of agreements stipulated in the September 1995 Oslo II Accord and the 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum; GIA has been largely closed since October 2000 by Israeli orders and its runway was destroyed by the Israeli Defense Forces in December 2001 (2004 est.)
North America
5 entriesOceania
32 entriesBaker Island
1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m, completely covered with vegetation and unusable (2004 est.)
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 (2004 est.)
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 (2004 est.)
South America
14 entriesSoutheast Asia
18 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2005, “Airports”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/airports/2005.