Sandy Point Airport
Encyclopedia
Sandy Point Airport is an airstrip serving Sandy Point
on Abaco Island in The Bahamas
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of 8 ft (2.4 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 10/28 with an asphalt
surface measuring 1372 metre.
Sandy Point, Bahamas
Sandy Point is a town in the Bahamas located in the South Abaco District. It is the last settlement in the southern end of the chain. Sandy Point was named because of the amount of sand on its beaches. It is south of the famous Disney castaway island ....
on Abaco Island 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...
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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 8 ft (2.4 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 10/28 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 1372 metre.