Palmyra (Cooper) Airport
P16 · Palmyra Island Atoll, XL · US Misc Pacific Is County · map
Palmyra (Cooper) Airport is a private airport in Palmyra Island Atoll, XL, 5 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 5,000 feet of treated.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA P16
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 5 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Gnc 7 sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1984
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 5,000 × 150 ft | Treated |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in XL · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Rstrd: emergency only.
- The nature conservancy, program director for Palmyra.
- Runway surface is coral only, with soil cement adhesive for compaction
- Caution: recommended takeoff last 2500' runway 24, landing first 2500' runway 06 due to intensive bird actvty.
- 130' obstruction 4500' ssw of runway 06 threshold.
- No thld lights or mkrs showing runway centerline; approach over lagoon - runway 06.
- No facilities available, landing should be made on or near runway centerline.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Palmyra Island Atoll from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Palmyra Island Atoll, XL as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 6 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in XL 0 since 1982 · 0 in the last ten years
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/P16.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 12, 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.