Catbalogan Airport

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Catbalogan Airport Luparan han Catbalogan Paliparan ng Catbalogan
IATA: none ICAO: RPVY
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
Serves	Catbalogan
Location	Barangay Cabugawan, Catbalogan, Samar, Philippines
Coordinates	11°48′36″N 124°49′48″E / 11.81000°N 124.83000°E / 11.81000; 124.83000
Map
RPVY Location of airport in Philippines
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 13/31 1,300 4,265 Concrete

Catbalogan Airport^[a] (ICAO: RPVY) is an airport serving Catbalogan, the capital of Samar, Philippines. It is classified as a community airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), a body of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports. Catbalogan Airport is located in Barangay Cabugawan on Buri Island, connected via land bridge of Route 675 to the coast of Barangay Silanga, Catbalogan.

In 1995, the government approved ₱57 million ($2.2 million) for building the airport - a pet project of Congressman Catalino Figueroa (Samar–2nd), a member of President Fidel V. Ramos's Lakas-NUCD party.

In July 2006, Figueroa visited the Malacañang Palace and requested funding for Samar roads and the Catbalogan Domestic Airport in Buri, Catbalogan. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo granted ₱20 million for the initial implementation of the said airport.^[1]

In 2012, some ₱94 million were allocated but there has been no clear outcome on its implementation since the airport has not commenced commercial operations during the period.^[2]

As part of the government's airport modernization program, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade visited the Catbalogan Airport in August 2017 with plans to expand it by 2018 as one of its priority projects.

In sometime around 2020, Air Juan which was the only one to operate the airport closed, and all the routes were closed. But in 2023, they reopened and the airline removed the route from the airport to Cebu.

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