Andros Town International Airport
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Andros Town Airport or Andros Town International Airport is an airport serving Andros Town
on Andros Island
in the Bahamas
. It is also known as Fresh Creek Airport.
It is one of three commercial airports on Andros Island
. The airport is served by two airlines, but few tourists actually fly there. The airport is like any small Bahamian
airport, with check-in, customs, gift shops and restaurants.
of 5 ft (1.5 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 09/27 with a asphalt
surface measuring 1237 metre.
Andros Town
Andros Town is a town located in North Andros, part of Andros island in The Bahamas. It is the capital of Andros Island.-See also:* List of cities in the Bahamas* Districts of the Bahamas* Islands of the Bahamas...
on Andros Island
Andros, Bahamas
Andros Island is an archipelago within the archipelago-nation of the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands. Geo-politically considered a single island, Andros has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined...
in the Bahamas
The Bahamas
The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...
. It is also known as Fresh Creek Airport.
It is one of three commercial airports on Andros Island
Andros, Bahamas
Andros Island is an archipelago within the archipelago-nation of the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands. Geo-politically considered a single island, Andros has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined...
. The airport is served by two airlines, but few tourists actually fly there. The airport is like any small Bahamian
The Bahamas
The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...
airport, with check-in, customs, gift shops and restaurants.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 5 ft (1.5 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 09/27 with a asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
surface measuring 1237 metre.