Cap-Haïtien International Airport is an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 serving Cap-Haïtien

Cap-Haïtien

Cap-Haïtien is a city of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Department of Nord...

, a city in the Nord department

Departments of Haiti

The Communes of Haiti are the third-level divisions of Haiti. The 10 departments have 42 arrondissements which are divided into 140 communes.-Artibonite Department:*Dessalines Arrondissement**Desdunes**Dessalines**Grande Saline...

 in Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

. It is the second largest airport in Haiti.

This airport connects Haitians to airports like Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport , also known as MIA and historically Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the South Florida area...

, Providenciales International Airport

Providenciales International Airport

Providenciales International Airport on the island of Providenciales is the main international airport serving the Turks and Caicos Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is operated by Providenciales Airport Company...

, Cibao International Airport

Cibao International Airport

Cibao International Airport also known as Santiago Airport, is located in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic's second largest city. It's the country's third busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements....

 and others in the Caribbean

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

.

The Haitian government recently signed a deal with Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

 for the airport to be renovated. As of September 13, 2010, a 1300 m (4,265 ft) concrete runway was being built by Haitian firms and personnel working under the supervision of a Cuban-Venezuelan firm.

The last airport for refueling for General Aviation coming from the Bahamas into Haiti is Great Inagua, the airport is in Matthew Town

Matthew Town

Matthew Town is the chief and only settlement on Great Inagua Island of the Bahamas. It is located on the southwest corner of the island. It was named after Bahamian Governor George Matthew and first settled during his tenure in office...

 (IATA: IGA, ICAO: MYIG).

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

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 10 ft (3 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 05/23 with an 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 1489 metre.

Airlines and destinations

Cargo carriers

• Salsa d'Haiti
  Salsa d'Haiti
  SALSA d'Haiti is a Haitian airline headquartered at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It flies several round trip flights daily between Cap-Haitien and Port-au-Prince....
  
   Scheduled and chartered passenger and cargo services.
• Sunrise Airways
  Sunrise Airways
  Sunrise Airways, founded in 2010, is an airline in Haiti that now provides charter flights. Sunrise Airways specializes in passenger charters, ad-hoc charter flights, chains of charter flights, and wet lease of its aircraft....
  
   to anywhere in Haiti up to 4000 lbs, Charter services.
• Caribbean American Shipping Express, LLC (CAS Xpress) (Hollywood, Florida) http://www.shiptohaiti.com/
• Contract Air Cargo
  Contract Air Cargo
  Contract Air Cargo is a cargo airline based in Waterford, Michigan, USA. It operates ad hoc cargo services as well as contract charters for General Motors and Ford.-History:...
  
   (Providenciales, Miami-Opa Loka)
• IBC Airways
  IBC Airways
  IBC Airways is an FAR Part 135 on-demand airline headquartered at 500 NW 34 ST, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315. IBC Airways operates on-demand cargo services to the Caribbean. Its main bases are Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport...
  
  (Miami)
• Missionary Flights and Services Inc. (Santiago, Exuma, St. Lucie)
• Corporate Aircraft Responding in Emergencies (CARE) banner. Among the most striking examples of CARE relief missions are the flights flown by Tradewinds Aviation in its Cessna Grand Caravans

Galaxy Export Inc Shipping to Cap Haitian http://www.wesendfast.com

External links

Cap-Haitien Airport at Autorité Aeroportuaire Nationale Autorité Aeroportuaire Nationale