Kalaupapa Airport

ICAO PHLU21.2110°N 156.9740°W24 ft / 7 mSmall airport

Kalaupapa Airport (IATA: LUP, ICAO: PHLU) is a small airport in Kalaupapa, Hawaii, United States. It opened in Oct 1941. It has one runway, 2,700 ft (823 m) long, asphalt. In 2024 it handled 9 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1941–1941

OCT 1941

OpenedKalaupapa Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

05/23061° / 241° · LIT

LENGTH2,700 ft823 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024

10K

27K

12K

11K

13K

14K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

MKKMolokai AirportUnited States · Mokulele Airlines14 km8.7 mi HNLDaniel K. Inouye International AirportUnited States · Mokulele Airlines99 km62 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LUP. From the Wikipedia article “Kalaupapa Airport” (revision of 29 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers9K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,718of 3,974 · #154 Oceania · #467 US Longest runway2,700 ft823 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=18,314of 29,823 · #1,632 Oceania · =6,650 US Elevation24 ft7 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,916of 43,341 · =1,961 Oceania · =15,163 US AgeOpened 19412026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,548of 15,079 · =42 Oceania · =705 US Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =2,325 US

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