Upolu Airport
UPP · PHUP · Hawi, Hawaii · Hawaii County · map
Upolu Airport is a public-use airport owned by the State of Hawaii Airports Division, 3 miles northwest of Hawi, Hawaii, 96 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 3,800 feet of asphalt. The FAA counts about 5,104 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA UPP · ICAO PHUP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- State of Hawaii Airports Division
- Elevation
- 96 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Hawaiian Islands sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1938
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 3,800 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 25: right-hand traffic pattern, hill 25 ft high 500 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency. |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,104, 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 Hawi from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Hawi, Hawaii: 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Hawaii.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- <pattern altitude small aircraft 800' above sea level. Large aircraft 1500' above sea level.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency.
- Prior permission required for transient parking.
- All helicopters confine operations to paved areas only.
- Occasional flocks of birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Skydiving act on and in vicinity of airport.
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.