Hakodate Airport
Hakodate Airport 函館空港 Hakodate Kūkō | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | ||||||||||
| Operator | Hokkaido Airports [ja] | ||||||||||
| Serves | Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 112 ft / 34 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°46′12′′N 140°49′19′′E / 41.77000°N 140.82194°E / 41.77000; 140.82194 | ||||||||||
| Website | English website | ||||||||||
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Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism [1] | |||||||||||
Hakodate Airport (函館空港, Hakodate Kūkō) (IATA: HKD, ICAO: RJCH) is an airport located 7.6 km (4.7 mi) east[2] of Hakodate Station in Hakodate, a city in Hokkaidō, Japan. It is owned by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and operated by Hokkaido Airports [ja].
History
[edit ]Hakodate airport opened in 1961 with a single, 1,200-meter runway. A new terminal upgrade and runway extension to 2,000 m became operational in 1971. The runway was extended further to 2,500 m in 1978 and to 3,000 m in 1999. A new terminal building opened in 2005.[3]
On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West by landing a MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft at Hakodate Airport.[4]
On June 21, 1995, All Nippon Airways Flight 857, a scheduled Boeing 747 flight from Tokyo to Hakodate, was hijacked by Fumio Kutsumi, a Tokyo bank employee armed with a screwdriver. Kutsumi claimed to be acting on behalf of Aum Shinrikyo cult group leader Shoko Asahara. The aircraft landed in Hakodate and stayed on the runway overnight for 15 hours before riot police stormed the aircraft at dawn and freed the passengers.[5]
Airlines and destinations
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Statistics
[edit ]Ground transportation
[edit ]Scheduled buses operate to Hakodate Station and the Onuma Prince Hotel.[8]
In popular culture
[edit ]- The animated film Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky depicts an emergency landing at the airport.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Hakodate Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ AIS Japan Archived 2016年05月17日 at the Portuguese Web Archive
- ^ 日本の空港/VFRパイロットの飛行場・ヘリポート情報誌!. www.dgraph.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017年04月17日.
- ^ Dowling, Stephen (2016年09月05日). "The pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet". BBC. Retrieved 2017年04月17日.
- ^ Reid, T. R. (1995年06月22日). "JAPANESE POLICE STORM PLANE, GRAB HIJACKER". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 2017年04月17日.
- ^ "Starlux Adds Taipei – Hakodate and Taichung – Macau in February and March 2024". KN Aviation. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
- ^ "Tigerair Taiwan NS23 Japan Operations – 10MAR23". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
- ^ HAKODATE Airport 函館空港ビルデング株式会社【アクセス】. airport.ne.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2017年12月02日. Retrieved 2017年04月17日.
External links
[edit ]Media related to Hakodate Airport at Wikimedia Commons
