HIRAGGH

Honiara International Airport

Honiara, Solomon Islands · Oceania

Oceania Pacific/Guadalcanal IVCA 44.0

9direct destinations

3airlines

1runway

2,200 mLongest runway

1942opened

Honiara International Airport (IATA: HIR, ICAO: AGGH), formerly known as Henderson Field, is an airport in the province of Guadalcanal in the nation of Solomon Islands. It is the primary international airport in the country, the second being Munda Airport in Western Province, which serves as its alternate. It is located 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the capital, Honiara.

Location

9.428°S, 160.055°E · 9 m s. n. m. (28 ft)

General data

CountrySolomon Islands

CityHoniara

IATA codeHIR

ICAO codeAGGH

Coordinates9.428°S, 160.055°E

Elevation9 m s. n. m. (28 ft)

Time zonePacific/Guadalcanal

Runways1

Longest runway2,200 m

Opened1942

Direct destinations9

Official website Its quality in the IVCA Ranking

Runways · 1

06/24

Length2,200 m7,218 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 1

Flight information

118.100INFO

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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.

Airlines operating here · 3

Other airlines with direct routes

Solomon Airlines Air Niugini QantasLink

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Jenny Scott · CC BY 2.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Honiara International Airport (HIR). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HIR

MLA

“Honiara International Airport (HIR).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HIR. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Honiara International Airport (HIR).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HIR.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Honiara International Airport (HIR). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HIR (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_hir,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Honiara International Airport (HIR)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HIR},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HIR}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

{{cite web |url=https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/HIR |title=Honiara International Airport (HIR) |website=Vuelopedia |publisher=Fundación Poderia |date=2026-10-15 |access-date=2026-10-17 |language=en}}