Francisco Bangoy International Airport
Francisco Bangoy International Airport , also commonly known as Davao International Airport, is the main airport serving Davao City and Davao Region in the Philippines. It is the busiest airport on the island of Mindanao and the third busiest in the Philippines in 2022. History Early history The site of the airport began operations in the 1940s as Sasa Landing Field with a donation of land in barangay Sasa, located in Buhangin district of Davao City, by Don Francisco Bangoy, the then-current patriarch of an influential family that founded and settled in Davao alongside Don Jose Uyanguren. At the time it began operation, the airport merely consisted of a unpaved grass runway and quonset huts serving as terminal buildings. At the time, and throughout much of the 1940s and the early 1950s, both Philippine Air Lines and the Philippine Air Force provided air service to the city. As a civil aviation airport The Davao (Sasa) Airport was opened for civil aviation on August 25, 1958. It initially consisted of a new long by wide concrete runway and a long by wide apron. The grass airstrip was later converted as a taxiway for general aviation. By 1959, the complex consisted of