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Geography4,078 ENTRIES

Highest airports

Open airports with scheduled service, by elevation. First: Daocheng Yading Airport (DCY).

Geography59 ENTRIES

Below sea level

Open airports with negative elevation. First: Bar Yehuda Airfield (MTZ).

Geography1,288 ENTRIES

Steepest runways

Open airports by the average gradient of their steepest runway, threshold to threshold. First: Lolat Airport (ID-0379).

Geography98 ENTRIES

Altiports

Open mountain strips named altiport or altisurface, by elevation. First: Altisurface du Glacier Du Dome Du Gouter (FR-0276).

Geography4,325 ENTRIES

Northernmost airline service

Open airports and heliports with scheduled service, by latitude. First: Svalbard Airport, Longyear (LYR).

Geography1,326 ENTRIES

Water runways

Open seaplane bases and airports with a water runway. First: Ketchikan International Airport (KTN).

Geography8 ENTRIES

Beach runways

Airfields where aircraft land on the beach itself, chosen by the editors, open ones first. First: Barra Airport (BRR).

A collection is a ranked list with a rule, or an editorial list where no rule in the data can draw one, with a source for every place. For open-ended questions (“all airports above 2,000 m”) use the register.