MachinesRunway length
Shortest commercial runway in the world
Record
400 m
1,312 ft
- Record holder
- Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (Saba)
What to remember
On the Caribbean island of Saba, Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport has a runway just 400 m (1,312 ft) long. It is widely acknowledged as the shortest commercial runway in the world.
Coded SAB by IATA and TNCS by ICAO, it is the only airport on Saba, a Dutch Caribbean island belonging to the Netherlands. Aircraft that land there have to stop, and take off again, within a distance that many runways devote to their approach zone alone.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport” (revision used 1379524591). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: killians_red, Photo licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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