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Bagasbas Airport

airport in Daet, Philippines

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2901296
Source-derived summary

Bagasbas Airport (Filipino: Paliparan ng Bagasbas, Bikol: Palayogan nin Bagasbas) (IATA: DTE, ICAO: RPUD), also known as Daet Airport, is an airport serving the general area of the town of Daet, located in the province of Camarines Norte in the Philippines. It is the only airport in Camarines Norte. The airport is classified as a secondary airport, or a minor commercial domestic airport, by the Air Transportation Office, a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of all airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.

The airport, in service since the 1930s, derives its name from its location in Barangay Bagasbas in Daet.

The airport is currently being renovated and is set to be open once again for public usage once the renovation has been finished.

See also

List of airports in the Philippines

Barangay Bagasbas

References

"Airport information for DTE / RPUD" – via Great Circle Mapper.

Editorial summary

“Bagasbas Airport” enters the record as airport in Daet, Philippines. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bagasbas, Airport and airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 155-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bagasbas, Airport and airport.
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Why this record matters

“Bagasbas Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bagasbas, Airport and airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2901296. Authority coordinates are 14.129, 122.981. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Routes into maps and plans
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bagasbas Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bagasbas Airport primary sources, Bagasbas Airport archive and Bagasbas research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from Bagasbas Airport” 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.