Basco Airport
Basco Airport
Basco Airport (IATA: BSO, ICAO: RPUO) is an airport serving the province of Batanes in the Philippines. It is located in the provincial capital, Basco. It is one of two airports in the Batanes Islands, the other being Itbayat Airport. The airport is classified as a Class 2 principal (minor) domestic airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of non-major airports. The airport is one of the hubs of Sky Pasada, a local carrier that flies short-haul routes between Basco and select airports in Northern Luzon. Although the airport in the past was briefly served by international flights, the airport is not officially classified as an international airport.
Location
20.451°N, 121.980°E · 89 m s. n. m. (291 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2
Tower
Flight information
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
Basco Airport was first built in 1930 as Batan Airfield. During the Second World War, it became a target of Japanese forces during their invasion of the Philippines, seizing it along with the whole island on the first day of the Pacific War on 8 December 1941. Subsequently, the airfield was bombed by American planes in the closing months of the war in 1945, but the Japanese managed to hold on to it until their official surrender.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Basco Airport (BSO). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BSO
MLA
“Basco Airport (BSO).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BSO. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Basco Airport (BSO).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BSO.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Basco Airport (BSO). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BSO (Accessed: 16 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Basco Airport (BSO)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BSO},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BSO}},
urldate = {2026-10-16},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}Wikipedia
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