Fakarava Airport

ICAO NTGF16.0541°S 145.6570°W4 m / 13 ftMedium airport

Fakarava Airport (IATA: FAV, ICAO: NTGF) is a medium airport in French Polynesia. It has one runway, 1,401 m (4,596 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 42 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

05/23065° / 245° · LIT

LENGTH1,401 m4,596 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

22K

21K

27K

28K

30K

34K

36K

20K

31K

42K

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

KHZKauehi AirportFrench Polynesia · Air Tahiti64 km40 mi RGIRangiroa AirportFrench Polynesia · Air Tahiti247 km153 mi PPTFa'a'ā International AirportFrench Polynesia · Air Moana, Air Tahiti452 km281 mi

Most destinationsAir Tahiti 3Air Moana 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from FAV. From the Wikipedia article “Fakarava Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers42K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,156of 3,974 · #106 Oceania · #9 PF Longest runway1,401 m4,596 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,777of 29,823 · =496 Oceania · #13 PF Elevation4 m13 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,021of 43,341 · =2,089 Oceania · =15 PF Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =1 PF

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

1 channels

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