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First Flight Airport

First Flight Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile west of the central business district of , a town in , United States.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: public use airport near Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA
  • Also known as: “FFA”, “KFFA”, and “Kitty Hawk Airport”
  • Address: NC

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wright Brothers National Memorial and RC Theaters Movies 10.

Park
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
, located in , commemorates Wright Flyer; the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine.

Movie theater
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is a movie theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kill Devil Hills and Colington.

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is a colorfully-named town on the coast of . It is part of the , and is best known for its association with the Wright Brothers' historic flights in the first airplane in 1903.

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is a city in .

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, located on the of , consists of a thriving village that has been around for generations, a newer beach community of residential cottages, and a maritime forest called Woods which features a wide variety of plant and animal life.

First Flight Airport

Latitude
36.01624° or 36° 0′ 59″ north
Longitude
-75.67201° or 75° 40′ 19″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Operator
National Parks Service
IATA airport code
FFA
ICAO airport code
KFFA
FAA airport code
FFA
United Nations Location Code
US KTT
Open location code
8786288H+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 490757752
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
4466241
Wiki­data ID
Q5453024
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“First Flight Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “First Flight Airport”
  • Chinese: “首航機場”
  • French: “aérodrome de First Flight”
  • French: “FFA”
  • French: “First Flight Airport”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה פרסט פלייט”
  • Indonesian: “FFA”
  • Indonesian: “KFFA”
  • Japanese: “ファーストフライト空港”
  • Persian: “FFA”
  • Persian: “KFFA”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه فرست فلایت”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul First Flight”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи фрстодн флоит”
  • Urdu: “فرسٹ فلائیٹ ہوائی اڈا”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Eagleton and Old Nags Head Place.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include West Hill and Wright Brothers Monument.

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