Akutan Seaplane Base

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Akutan Seaplane Base
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Akutan
Serves Akutan, Alaska
Location Akutan Island
Elevation  AMSL 0 ft / 0 m
Coordinates 54°08′02″N165°46′42″W / 54.13389°N 165.77833°W / 54.13389; -165.77833
Map
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KQA
Location of airport in Alaska
Akutan Seaplane Base
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
E/W10,0003,048Water
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations102
Based aircraft0
PenAir Grumman Goose at Akutan PenAir Grumman Goose.jpg
PenAir Grumman Goose at Akutan

Akutan Seaplane Base( IATA : was KQA [2] , FAA LID : KQA) is a public use seaplane base located in Akutan, [1] a city on Akutan Island in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled seaplane service was subsidized by the Essential Air Service program until late 2012 when PenAir retired their Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft and a new land-based airport on neighboring Akun Island was built. The new airport is known as Akutan Airport.

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As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,346 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [3] 1,200 enplanements in 2009, and 1,246 in 2010. [4] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year). [5]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Maritime Helicopters Akutan-Akun [6]
Carrier shares: January – December 2015 [7]
Carrier  Passengers (arriving and departing)
PenAir
25(100%)
Top domestic destinations: Jan. – Dec. 2015 [7]
RankDestinationAirportPassengers
1 Unalaska, AK Unalaska Airport (DUT) 25

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References

  1. 1 2 FAA Airport Form 5010 for KQA PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective January 5, 2017.
  2. "IATA Airport Code Search (KQA: Akutan)". International Air Transport Association . Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  3. "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
  4. "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
  5. "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on 2012-09-27.
  6. Maritime Schedule Retrieved Sep 11, 2022.
  7. 1 2 "Akutan, AK: Akutan Airport (KQA)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation. December 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2017.

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