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Nain Airstrip

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ55624561 ↗
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Nain Airstrip is an airstrip serving the town of Nain and the Alpart alumina refinery in the Saint Elizabeth Parish of Jamaica. The airstrip is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of Nain.

There is distant high terrain east of the airstrip.

The Sangster VOR/DME (Ident: SIA) is located 36.3 nautical miles (67.2 km) north-northwest of the runway.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nain Airstrip” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.