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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.
Many of Alaska's North Slope workers live either in Anchorage or elsewhere in the Lower 48 states and fly through the airport to their jobs in Prudhoe Bay. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,599,313 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [ 29 ] 2,282,666 enplanements in 2009, and 2,342,310 in 2010.
St. Michael Airport (IATA: SMK, ICAO: PAMK, FAA LID: SMK, formerly 5S8) is a state-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) west of the central business district of St. Michael, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Unalakleet Airport (IATA: UNK, ICAO: PAUN, FAA LID: UNK) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) north of the central business district of Unalakleet, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
King Salmon Airport (IATA: AKN, ICAO: PAKN, FAA LID: AKN) is a state-owned public-use airport located just southeast of King Salmon, in the Bristol Bay Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] It was formerly the Naknek Air Force Base , named for its location near the Naknek River .
Kodiak Benny Benson State Airport (IATA: ADQ, ICAO: PADQ, FAA LID: ADQ) is a public and military use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southwest of the central business district of Kodiak, [1] a city on Kodiak Island in the U.S. state of Alaska.
On February 16, 1975, a Pacific Alaska Airlines DC-6, a cargo flight, crashed attempting to return to Fairbanks Int'l Airport. Three engines lost power after takeoff from runway 10 and crashed 2 km short of runway 19 attempting to return to the airport possibly due to fuel contamination. All three occupants were killed. [33]
Adak's airport is one of the largest airports in the Aleutian Islands. Built by the U.S. Navy for Naval air transport, the airport consists of a 7,800-foot (2,400 m) runway and a 7,600-foot (2,300 m) runway (permanently closed fall 2015), equipped with an Instrument Landing System and glideslope which facilitate Instrument Flight Rules landings.