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is an airport located in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, northeast of Kagoshima-Chūō Station〔 in Kagoshima City. It is the second-busiest airport in Kyushu after Fukuoka Airport. Japan Air Commuter, a regional affiliate of Japan Airlines, has its headquarters at the airport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jac.co.jp/company_info/index.html )〕 ==History== The airport opened in 1972, replacing a former Imperial Japanese Navy airfield in the Kamoike area near the city center, which had served as the city's main airport since 1957.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ocab.mlit.go.jp/about/jurisdiction/kagoshima/ )〕 The site of the former airport was re-developed as a "new town" with office buildings and high-density housing projects, and is now the site of the Kagoshima Prefecture government office, among other buildings. The airport's runway had an initial length of 2,500 m, which was extended to 3,000 m in 1980. An international terminal opened in 1982 and a cargo terminal opened in 1987.〔 Air Niugini, Cathay Pacific Airways, China Airlines and Nauru Airlines provided international service to Kagoshima from the 1970s to the 1980s, and JAL operated a route to Singapore via Hong Kong and Bangkok during the 1980s. Kagoshima served as the destination of the final scheduled NAMC YS-11 flight in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sora-stage.com/htdocs/htaccess/P1_E-T.pdf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kagoshima Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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