Fitiuta Airport


Fitiuta Airport is a public airport located in Fiti‘uta, a village on the island of Ta‘ū in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States. Fitiuta Airport replaced Tau Airport, which was officially deactivated after the construction and activation of Fitiuta Airport in 1990. The Fitiuta airport is owned by the Government of American Samoa.
Although most U.S. airports are assigned the same three-letter location identifier by both the FAA and IATA, Fitiuta Airport is assigned FAQ by the FAA and FTI by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is NSFQ.

Facilities and aircraft

Fitiuta Airport has one paved runway designated 12/30 which measures. For 12-month period ending May 29, 2015, the airport had 1,130 aircraft operations, 100% of which were air taxi flights. Fitiuta airport also has a fully functioning fire-crash station, lighted runway and operates as a Part 139 airport.