The station was officially closed on 10 August and runway construction commenced shortly thereafter to bring the landing area up to Class A standard.

Dredging began in 1958, the runway construction began in 1959 and was finished in 1960.

Some army engineer officers were lost to aviation construction battalions for runway construction.

In November, runway construction began along with various taxiways, hardstands and hangars.

One goal in the industry's campaign is faster environmental review, whether state or federal, of proposed runway construction.

As had been the case on Saipan, the 805th was assigned runway construction for B-29 operations.

The other problems are runway construction which has schedule to finish 18 months after the project started on January 2011, infrastructure building and power generator installment.

The runway construction might be finished after 2012, since the site was paddy field and swamp area.

Various delays, however, pushed runway construction back to October.

A third terminal is currently in the planning stage along with a third runway construction due to commence shortly.