St. Helena Airport
Saint Helena Airport is an international airport on Saint Helena, a remote island in the south Atlantic Ocean, in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha. The construction of the runway was finished in 2015 and the airport opened in 2016.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena
- Also known as: “Aeroport de Saint Helena”, “Aéroport de Saint Hélène”, “FHSH”, “HLE”, and “Saint Helena Airport”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Levelwood and Longwood.
St. Helena Airport
Latitude
-15.95883° or 15° 57′ 32″ south
Longitude
-5.64652° or 5° 38′ 48″ west
Elevation
1,024 feet (312 metres)
Established
May 11th, 2016
Operator
Saint Helena Airport Ltd
IATA airport code
HLE
ICAO airport code
FHSH
Open location code
5CPP29R3+F9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“St. Helena Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار سانت هيلينا”
- Breton: “Aerborzh Santez-Helena”
- Catalan: “Aeroport de Santa Helena”
- Cebuano: “Saint Helena Airport”
- Chinese: “圣赫勒拿机场 / 聖赫勒拿機場”
- Chinese: “聖赫勒拿島機場”
- Chinese: “聖赫勒拿機場”
- Danish: “Saint Helena Airport”
- Dutch: “Luchthaven Sint-Helena”
- Dutch: “Saint Helena Airport”
- Dutch: “vliegveld Saint Helena”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار سانت هيلينا”
- Finnish: “Saint Helenan lentoasema”
- French: “Aéroport de Sainte Hélène”
- French: “aéroport de Sainte-Hélène”
- French: “Aéroport de Sainte-Hélène”
- French: “Aéroport Sainte-Hélène”
- German: “Flughafen St. Helena”
- Hausa: “Filin jirgi na saint halena”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Saint Helena”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Sant’Elena”
- Japanese: “セントヘレナ空港”
- Javanese: “Bandara Santa Helena”
- Korean: “세인트헬레나 공항”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint Helena Lufthavn”
- Norwegian: “Saint Helena Lufthavn”
- Persian: “فرودگاه سینت هلینا”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Święta Helena”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Saint Helena”
- Russian: “Аэропорт Святой Елены”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Santa Elena”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Santa Elena”
- Swedish: “Sankt Helenas flygplats”
- Swedish: “Sankta Helenas flygplats”
- Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานเซนต์เฮเลนา”
- Thai: “สนามบินเซนต์เฮเลนา”
- Turkish: “Saint Helena Havalimanı”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Святої Єлени (аеропорт)”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Святої Єлени”
- Yue Chinese: “聖赫勒拿島機場”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bottom Woods and Domaine de Longwood House.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: St Helena Airport terminal and King and Queen Rocks.
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: Must-Visit Destinations
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