{"id":6977,"date":"2015-09-29T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:06:07","slug":"phnl-honolulu-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/uncategorized\/phnl-honolulu-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"PHNL &#8211; Honolulu International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27948\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image-6.png 474w, http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image-6-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1927, Honolulu Airport was opened to the world as the John Rodgers Airport, named after a prominent WWI local naval officer.  It was funded by the territorial legislature and the Chamber of Commerce, and was the first full-sized airport in Hawaii; aircraft had previously been limited to small landing strips, fields, and seaplane docks.  From 1939 to 1943, the adjacent Keehi Lagoon was dredged for use by seaplanes, and the dredged soil was moved to HNL to provide more space for conventional planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. military grounded all civil aircraft and took over all civil airports after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor\">attack on Pearl Harbor<\/a>, and Rodgers Field was designated\u00a0<strong>Naval Air Station Honolulu<\/strong>.  The Navy built a control tower and terminal building, and Rodgers Field was returned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Territory_of_Hawaii\">Territory of Hawaii<\/a>\u00a0in 1946.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.honolulu-hnl.airports-guides.com\/hnl_history.html#google_vignette<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_K._Inouye_International_Airport\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_K._Inouye_International_Airport<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27949,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/27949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airportarchives.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}