Catarman National Airport
Catarman National Airport, otherwise known as Catarman Airport, is an airport serving the general area of Catarman, located in the province of Northern Samar in the Philippines. The airport is classified as a Class 2 principal airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.
Airport upgrade
Catarman National Airport is a priority for national appropriation by the Philippine government. Improvement of its terminal building incurred a budgetary allocation of a 15 million-peso appropriation from the national government.The airport sustained heavy damage following the onslaught of Typhoon Nona in 2015. Rehabilitation works were started and the project consists of constructing a new passenger terminal building, taxiway, perimeter fence, expanding the apron, and improvements in the runway. The upgrade works at the airport were completed in August 2021 and were inaugurated on September 2, 2021.