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Loakan Airport
Paliparan ng Loakan
Pagtayaban ti Loakan
IATA: BAG – ICAO: RPUB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Air Transportation Office
Serves Baguio City
Location Barangay Loakan Proper, Baguio City
Elevation AMSL 1,296 m / 4,251 ft
Coordinates 16°22′30″N 120°37′10″E / 16.375°N 120.61944°E / 16.375; 120.61944
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 1,802 5,912 Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Passengers 9,805
Aircraft movements 1,492
Metric tonnes of cargo 55
Statistics from the Air Transportation Office.

Loakan Airport (Filipino: Paliparan ng Loakan, Ilokano: Pagtayaban ti Loakan) (IATA: BAG, ICAO: RPUB) is an airport serving the general area of Baguio City, located in the province of Benguet in the Philippines. The airport is classified as a trunkline airport, or a major commercial domestic airport, by the Civil Aviation Authority.

Airlines and destinations


Asian Spirit NAMC YS-11 airliner, at Loakan Airport, Baguio City July, 2006.
Asian Spirit NAMC YS-11 airliner, at Loakan Airport, Baguio City July, 2006.

Loakan Airport was formerly served by Philippine Airlines (PAL) beginning on March 15, 1941 with a single Beechcraft Model 18 NPC-54 on daily services between Manila (from Nielson Field) and Baguio. PAL suspended flights into Baguio in 1998 as part of a company downsizing. In the next year, commercial airline service into Baguio resumed with service from Asian Spirit Airlines, which later became Zest Airways. Commercial air service into Loakan Airport was discontinued in July 2008, until service by Sky Pasada service began in 2009.

Airlines Destinations
Sky Pasada Caticlan, Cauayan, Manila, Tuguegarao

Incidents and accidents

  • A Philippine Airlines DC-3 was lost on takeoff in 1952.
  • On the morning of June 27, 1987, Philippine Airlines Flight 206 a Hawker Siddeley HS 748, bound for Baguio, crashed in the slopes of Mt. Ugo while attempting to land in a monsoon, killing all 50 people onboard. Then a Philippine Air Force Bell UH-1 Huey was lost during recovery operations of that crash.
  • A Philippine Air Force Cessna T-41 crashed right after takeoff on May 25, 2005. All four airmen died.
  • On April 7, 2009, a Bell 412 presidential helicopter owned by the Philippine Air Force carrying 8 key aides of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo crashed in the slopes of Mount Pulag in Tinoc, Ifugao while en route to Lagawe, the provincial capital of Ifugao. But they tried to return to Loakan Airport due to bad weather. All onboard the ill-fated chopper died and Malacañang mourned for their deaths. At the time of the crash, the key aides checked the area for the visit of President Arroyo because she will inspect her mountain road project. Because of the disaster, she cancelled her trip. The U.S. officials dispatched CH-46 Sea Knights to find the downed chopper.


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General Info
Country Philippines
ICAO ID RPUB
Time UTC+8
Latitude 16.375103
16° 22' 30.37" N
Longitude 120.619636
120° 37' 10.69" E
Elevation 4251 feet
1296 meters
Magnetic Variation 001° W (01/06)
Operating Agency CIVIL GOVERNMENT, (LANDING FEES AND DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE MAY BE REQUIRED)
Island Group Luzon I
Operating Hours SEE REMARKS FOR OPERATING HOURS OR COMMUNICATIONS FOR POSSIBLE HOURS


Runways
ID Dimensions Surface PCN ILS
09/27 5912 x 115 feet
1802 x 35 meters
CONCRETE. 038RAWT NO


Navaids
Type ID Name Channel Freq Distance From Field Bearing From Navaid
NDB BG BAGUIO - 272 At Field -


Remarks
CAUTION WIP. Unauth persons and veh cros rwy. Deep embankment each end of rwy. 1000' Terrain obst apch zone Rwy 09.
FUEL (NC-80, 100)
OPR HOURS Opr 2330-0730Z.
RSTD Clsd to stu pilot trng exc in emerg.



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