Kawaihapai Airfield
HDH · PHDH · Mokuleia, Hawaii · Honolulu County · map
Kawaihapai Airfield is a public-use airport owned by the US Army, 2 miles west of Mokuleia, Hawaii, 14 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 9,007 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100 octane avgas, Jet A) and about 40 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 37,515 takeoffs and landings a year. About 3 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HDH · ICAO PHDH
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · owned by the Army
- Owner
- US Army
- Elevation
- 14 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 786 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 3:30 pm
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Hawaiian Islands sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 9,007 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 08: threshold displaced 1,993 ft
- Runway 26: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 1,995 ft, trees 60 ft high 1,400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | · UNICOM oper 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 37,515, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Mokuleia from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Mokuleia, HI as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 26 since 1982, 5 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Located within dillingham military reservation.
- Open to civil use through agrmt between U.S. army and state of HAWAII-CHECK NOTAMs prior to USE-NO the control tower in open.
- Simultaneous glider/powered aircraft operations.
- UNICOM oper 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
- Wind indcrs are not lighted.
- U.S. army support command HI, fort shafter HI 96858.
- Custodian attendant at airport M-F 6:30 am to 2:30 pm.
- Runway 08/26 closed for military training 0800-1700Z.
- 50:1 to displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio 50:1 to displaced thld.
- Extnsv military helicopter and glider operations daily. Aerobatic training offshore north of Airfield above 1500'.
- Closed to civil aircraft 7:00 pm to 7:00 am apr 1-SEP 30 and 6:00 pm to 6:00 am oct 1-MAR 31.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.