Aeon Field

Aeon Field is an abandoned airport located at Aeon Point on the southeastern peninsula of the Republic of Kiribati island of Kirimati. It was constructed in the late 1950s^[1] by the British to support their nuclear tests held at the island.^[2]

Aeon Field
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	abandoned
Owner	Island Government of Kiritimati
Operator	none
Serves	none
Location	Kiritimati
Elevation AMSL	016 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	001°45′48″N 157°11′43″W
Interactive map of Aeon Field
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 1,830 6,004 Asphalt

In spite of having been ground zero for nuclear testing with H-Bombs suspended from balloons,^[3][4] a Japanese Aerospace organisation intended to use this airfield to launch and land an experimental plane from 2002 onwards as part of the space vehicle test program HOPE-X.^[5] Although development of the airfield did start, the program was terminated before any test flights took place.

Facilities

The airfield was built to support medium-sized aircraft. There is a single runway oriented east–west and a small apron to the northwest.