<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Hilo International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">In 1927 the territory of Hawaii legislature passed act 257, authorizing the expenditure of $25,000 for the construction of a landing strip in Hilo. The site was known as keaukaha, on land belonging to the hawaiian homes commission. Inmates from a nearby prison camp cleared the area of brush and rocks. The new facility was dedicated on february 11, 1928, by major clarence m. Young, then secretary of aeronautics of the u.s. Department of commerce.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Sixteen months after the dedication, scheduled inter-island service began on November 11, 1929, by inter-island airways, the forerunner of hawaiian airlines. For $32, travelers could climb aboard an eight-passenger sikorsky s-38 on thrice-weekly flights between Hilo and Honolulu. Five years later, in 1934, the company was awarded the right to carry air mail for the u.s. Postal service.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Facilities Hilo International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Runways</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">Hilo international airport has two runways. Runway 8-26 is 9,800 ft &times; 150 ft (2,987 m &times; 46 m) and is used for nearly all air carrier operations. It is capable of accommodating overseas passenger service by aircraft as large as the boeing 747 and is used occasionally by the Lockheed c-5 galaxy, a use military transport. [runway 3/21 is 5,600 ft &times; 150 ft (1,707 m &times; 46 m) and is used for general aviation operations including take-off and landing of smaller commuter airplanes, although it is capable of handling smaller medium-sized aircraft such as the boeing 737 and airbus a320 should the need arise. In march 2022, there were 35 aircraft based at this airport: 10 single-engine, 3 multi-engines, 12 helicopter, 1 glider and 9 militaries.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Terminal area</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">the passenger terminal complex, including commuter facilities, is at the southern edge of Hilo international airport and is served by an access roadway from Hawaii belt road at kekūanaōʻa avenue. Air cargo operations are handled at the new cargo facility located on the southern edge of runway 8-26. Hawaiian air cargo, southwest cargo, and aloha air cargo, are three of the major cargo operations served here. Other cargo operations include fedex, kamala air, and Johanna by hawaiian cargo. The northwest apron, which serves this area of the airport, provides parking for transient military aircraft and is the site of some general aviation facilities. Other general aviation facilities are located to the south, near the civil air patrol area.</p>
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