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Princeville Airport is a small private airfield on the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii, a few miles from the town of Hanalei. Owned by Princeville Corp., it has one paved, lit runway and today hosts helicopter tour operations rather than fixed-wing airline traffic.
Princeville Airport (FAA LID: HI01, IATA: HPV) is a private airfield operated by Princeville Corp., sited on Kauai's scenic north shore near Hanalei. It has long served as a general aviation and commuter field for the Princeville resort area, and today is notable to visiting sim pilots chiefly as the base for helicopter sightseeing tours of the island rather than fixed-wing traffic.
The airport lies on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, about 3 nautical miles east of the central business district of Hanalei village. It sits on the north shore of the island, within the broader Hawaiian island airspace environment shared with Lihue Airport, the island's main commercial gateway.
Princeville has a single physical runway, 05/23, measuring 3,387 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no instrument landing system available.
Radio communications are conducted on the CTAF of 122.9 MHz, with a remote communications outlet (RCO) available on 122.3 MHz via North Kauai radio. UNICOM is provided on 122.8 MHz. There is no instrument approach procedure published for the field.
The airfield lies close to Hanalei village and the Kuhio Highway corridor on Kauai's north shore, features that can assist with visual identification when approaching from over the island's coastline.
Princeville Airport opened for operations in 1977 as a quasi-public general aviation airport. Princeville Airways began scheduled commuter services on September 9, 1980, linking Honolulu and Princeville with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter STOL aircraft, primarily to serve guests of the Princeville Resort. In November 1983, Hurricane Iwa struck Kauai and caused extensive damage; because Lihue Airport lacked capacity to handle the resulting surge in emergency flights, some smaller aircraft were diverted to land at Princeville instead. The State of Hawaii entered into a lease agreement with the airport's owner on December 5, 1994 to take over operations and maintenance, and in 1996 the Hawaii legislature's Act 287 appropriated $100,000 for design work to widen Runway 5-23, anticipating the field's absorption into the State Airport System. Island Air ceased passenger flights from Princeville in January 1997, and the State dropped its management lease in 1999. The airport went without scheduled commercial service for more than two decades until Makani Kai Air began twice-daily flights between Honolulu International Airport and Princeville on May 1, 2019; this service ended following Makani Kai's merger with Mokulele Airlines.
As of April 2023, the only operator based at Princeville Airport is Blue Hawaiian Helicopters, which offers helicopter tours of Kauai from the field. Scheduled fixed-wing commercial service is no longer offered from Princeville, with commercial airline traffic to Kauai now concentrated at Lihue Airport.
