Fitiuta Airport

Fitiuta Airport
IATA: FTI ICAO: NSFQ FAA LID: FAQ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of American Samoa
Serves	Ta'u Island
Location	Fitiuta, American Samoa, United States
Time zone	Samoa Time Zone (UTC-11:00)
Elevation AMSL	34 m / 110 ft
Coordinates	14°12′58″S 169°25′25″W
Website	http://americansamoaport.as.gov/airport-ppg/manu-a-airports.html
Map
FTI
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 975 3,200 Concrete
Statistics (2002)
Aircraft operations 2,832
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Fitiuta Airport (IATA: FTI, ICAO: NSFQ, FAA LID: FAQ) is a public airport located in Fiti‘uta, a village on the island of Ta‘ū in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States. Fitiuta Airport replaced Tau Airport (located in the village of Tau), which was officially deactivated after the construction and activation of Fitiuta Airport in 1990.[2] The Fitiuta airport is owned by the Government of American Samoa.[1]

Although most U.S. airports are assigned the same three-letter location identifier by both the FAA and IATA, Fitiuta Airport is assigned FAQ by the FAA and FTI by the IATA (which assigned FAQ to Frieda River Airport in Papua New Guinea). The airport's ICAO identifier is NSFQ. [3] [4]

Facilities and aircraft

Fitiuta Airport has one paved runway designated 12/30 which measures 975 m × 23 m (3,200 ft × 75 ft). For 12-month period ending May 29, 2015, the airport had 1,130 aircraft operations (an average of 3 per day), 100% of which were air taxi flights.[1] Fitiuta airport also has a fully functioning fire-crash station (activated in 2011), lighted runway and operates as a Part 139 airport.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Samoa Airways	Pago Pago[5]

See also

• List of airports in American Samoa

References

1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for FAQ PDF, retrieved 2007-03-15
2. "Fitiuta Airport". Government of American Samoa. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
3. Great Circle Mapper: NSFQ - Fitiuta, American Samoa
4. Aviation Safety Network: FAQ - Frieda River, Papua New Guinea
5. "Destinations We Fly To". Samoa Airways. Archived from the original on 2 January 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2020.

External links

• National Park Service map of the Manu‘a Islands showing location of Fiti‘uta village and airport on the island of Ta‘ū.
• Resources for this airport:
  • Airport information for FAQ at AirNav
    • Airport Information and Live Flight Tracker for NSFQ at FlightAware
  • Accident history for FTI at Aviation Safety Network