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Maasin Airport (RPSM), also known as Panan-awan Airport, serves Maasin, the provincial capital of Southern Leyte in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. It is a small, CAAP-operated feeder airport with a single hard runway and no instrument approach aids, making it a straightforward but purely visual destination for light aircraft. It remains the only airport in Southern Leyte and has historically been used more for pilot training and disaster relief operations than for scheduled airline services.
Maasin Airport, historically named Panan-awan Airport after the barangay in which it sits, is the sole airport serving Maasin, the capital of Southern Leyte province, and indeed the only airport anywhere in Southern Leyte. It is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and classified as a feeder airport, a category covering smaller fields that support light traffic rather than major scheduled services. For a simulator pilot it offers a compact, visually-flown approach into a single short hard runway set among the hills of Eastern Visayas, with no electronic approach aids to rely on.
The airport lies in Barangay Panan-awan, within the city of Maasin, Southern Leyte province, in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. It is the only airport in Southern Leyte, making it the principal aerial access point for the province.
Maasin Airport has a single physical runway, 16/34, with a hard surface measuring 3,648 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach system installed, so all arrivals and departures are flown visually.
No communications frequencies are published for Maasin Airport, and it has no instrument landing system. Pilots should expect to operate on a see-and-avoid basis without reliance on radio navigation aids or an instrument approach.
Early construction of the airport dates back to the 1970s, and it has since been classified by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines as a feeder airport. In 2009 the Department of Transportation and Communications allocated funding, reported at around 40 million pesos, for runway expansion, with a further 50 million pesos requested for a terminal building. A new passenger terminal, initially built in 2015 within the airport's 36-hectare site, was formally inaugurated in July 2018 by Department of Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, with a stated capacity of around 300 passengers a day. During Typhoon Yolanda in 2013, the airport served as an important jumping-off point for relief flights delivering supplies to Tacloban and other badly affected areas. Further infrastructure funding was announced in 2018 as part of a programme to ready a number of Philippine airports for night operations, and airlines including Air Asia Zest and Cebu Pacific have at times expressed interest in a Cebu-Maasin route, though scheduled commercial services have not been established.
Maasin Airport has continued to be used for pilot training with single-engine aircraft such as the Cessna, rather than for scheduled commercial operations. Ongoing infrastructure projects, including runway widening and lengthening works alongside a terminal building, control tower and fire station, have been undertaken with the stated aim of readying the airport for eventual domestic airline services, though as of the most recent reporting no regular airline had begun operating there.