Tinak Airport

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Tinak Airport
Summary
Serves Tinak, Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands
Elevation  AMSL 4 ft / 1 m
Coordinates 07°08′N171°55′E / 7.133°N 171.917°E / 7.133; 171.917 Coordinates: 07°08′N171°55′E / 7.133°N 171.917°E / 7.133; 171.917
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 2,850 869 Coral Gravel

Tinak Airport, ( IATA : TIC, FAA LID : N18), [1] [2] is a public use airstrip located in the village of Tinak on Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands.

An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The characters prominently displayed on baggage tags attached at airport check-in desks are an example of a way these codes are used.

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Facilities

Tinak Airport is at an elevation of 4 feet (1.2 m) above mean sea level. The runway is designated 05/23 with a coral gravel surface measuring 2,850 by 45 feet (869 x 14 m). [1] There are no aircraft based at Tinak. [1]

Elevation Height of a geographic location above a fixed reference point

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface . The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface.

Runway Area of surface used by aircraft to takeoff from and land on

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface.

Coral Marine invertebrates of the class Anthozoa

Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Corals species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for N18 ( Form 5010 PDF ), effective 2009-10-22.
  2. ↑ "TIC - Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands - Tinak Airport". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
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