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Kake (/ ˈ k eɪ k /, like 'cake') is a first-class city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States.The population was 557 at the 2010 census. [3] The name comes from the Tlingit word Ḵéix̱ʼ (Northern Tlingit) or Ḵéex̱ʼ (Southern Tlingit), which is derived from ḵée 'dawn, daylight' and x̱ʼé 'mouth', i.e. 'mouth of dawn' or 'opening of daylight'.
Pilot Station Airport (IATA: PQS, FAA LID: 0AK) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Pilot Station, a city in the Kusilvak Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Pilot Station is located at (61.936050, -162.883403), [3] on the northern bank of the lower Yukon River, approximately eighty miles ('as the crow flies') from the Bering According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2 ), of which 1.7 square miles (4.4 km 2 ) is land and 0.6 square miles (1. ...
Kake Seaplane Base (IATA: KAE, FAA LID: KAE) is a public-use seaplane base located in Kake, [1] a city in the Petersburg Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.Scheduled airline passenger service is subsidized by the U.S. Department of Transportation via the Essential Air Service program.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state. ... These vintage photos show what Alaska looked like before it became part of the ...
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Kake Airport has one runway designated 11/29 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 100 feet (1,219 x 30 m). [1] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 4,600 aircraft operations, an average of 12 per day.
This is a list of airports in Alaska (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.