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Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport (PGUM) is Guam's sole international gateway, sited near Hagåtña in Barrigada and Tamuning municipalities in the western Pacific. Built on the site of the former Naval Air Station Agana, it today serves as a hub for United Airlines and the principal cargo base for Asia Pacific Airlines, offering a pair of long hard-surfaced runways equipped with ILS for both civil and long-haul traffic.
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, also known as Guam International Airport, is the only international airport on the island of Guam, a United States territory in the western Pacific. It lies a few miles east of the capital, Hagåtña, and occupies the site of the former Naval Air Station Agana. The field is a hub for United Airlines and serves as the primary cargo hub for Asia Pacific Airlines, making it a busy mixed civil and military-heritage aerodrome of considerable interest to any simulator pilot flying trans-Pacific routes.
The airport sits at Hagåtña, within the municipalities of Barrigada and Tamuning on Guam, about three miles east of the capital. It is a large controlled aerodrome served by Guam CERAP for approach and departure control and by Agana Tower for the aerodrome itself, placing it within controlled airspace typical of a major international airport.
The airport has two physical runways. The longer, 06L/24R, is a hard-surfaced, lit runway equipped with an ILS on the 06L threshold; declared lengths are approximately 10,978 ft in the 06L direction and 12,064 ft in the 24R direction. The parallel runway, 06R/24L, is also hard-surfaced and lit, with an ILS on the 06R threshold, and declared lengths of approximately 9,989 ft in the 06R direction and 8,984 ft in the 24L direction. Field elevation is 266 ft.
Radio services include an air/ground frequency of 118.7 MHz, approach and departure control through Guam CERAP on 120.5 MHz, ATIS on 119 MHz, clearance delivery on 121.9 MHz, ground control also on 121.9 MHz, ramp control on 121.6 MHz, and Agana Tower on 118.1 MHz. Instrument approaches are supported by ILS on runways 06L and 06R.
As a large controlled international airport with full ATC services from Agana Tower and Guam CERAP, all arriving and departing traffic operates under air traffic control clearance rather than informal visual circuit procedures typical of smaller fields.
The airfield was built by the Japanese Navy around 1943 as a military airfield known as Guamu Dai Ni, part of the defence of the Marianas. Following the American recapture of Guam in 1944 it was renamed Agana Airfield and repaired by Seabees of the 5th Construction Brigade in October 1944. The United States Army Air Forces' 11th Bombardment Group flew B-24 Liberators from the field until relocating to Okinawa in July 1945, and the 41st Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron flew long-range reconnaissance F-5 Lightnings from the station until January 1946. Postwar, the airfield supported fighter defence of the Marianas and transport operations before being handed to the United States Navy in 1947, which operated it as Naval Air Station Agana until its closure under the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Civilian travel to Guam was restricted to military personnel until 1962, with a single Quonset hut serving as the air terminal in the early years. The lifting of travel restrictions spurred development, and the International Air Terminal opened in March 1967, receiving its first Japanese tour group two months later. Terminal operations passed to the Government of Guam's Department of Commerce in 1969, and the Guam International Airport Authority was created in 1975. After NAS Agana closed in April 1995, the Authority took over the entire airport's operations. A new passenger terminal opened in 1982, superseded by the current, larger terminal building opened in phases between 1996 and 1998. The first regular flight to mainland China from Guam began in 2014, with United Airlines commencing service to Shanghai Pudong on 29 October 2014.
The airport continues to operate as a major hub, serving United Airlines and functioning as the primary cargo hub for Asia Pacific Airlines. A capital improvement campaign known as Project Hulo', launched in July 2017, has included works such as an international arrivals corridor intended to bring the airport into compliance with post-9/11 federal security regulations. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, United Airlines maintained the only scheduled service to and from Guam, with additional carriers including Philippine Airlines and Jin Air resuming limited flights by 2021.