Circle City Airport

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Circle City Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region
Serves Circle, Alaska
Elevation  AMSL 613 ft / 187 m
Coordinates 65°49′40″N144°04′34″W / 65.82778°N 144.07611°W / 65.82778; -144.07611
Map
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CRC
Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
15/332,979908Gravel/dirt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations1,110
Based aircraft0
Passengers448
Freight46,000 lbs

Circle City Airport( IATA : IRC, ICAO : PACR, FAA LID : CRC) is a state-owned public-use airport located in Circle [1] (also known as Circle City), in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is also known as Circle City (New) Airport. [1] Scheduled commercial airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Contents

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 303 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [2] 377 enplanements in 2009, and 355 in 2010. [3] 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). [4]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CRC by the FAA [1] and IRC by the IATA [5] (which assigned CRC to the Santa Ana Airport in Cartago, Colombia [6] ). The airport's ICAO identifier is PACR. [7]

Facilities and aircraft

Circle City Airport covers an area of 324 acres (131 ha) at an elevation of 613 feet (187 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33 with a gravel surface measuring 2,979 by 60 feet (908 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,110 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per month: 63% general aviation, 36% air taxi, and 1% military. [1]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service at this airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Warbelow's Air Ventures Central, Fairbanks [8]

Statistics

Carrier shares: January – December 2015 [9]
Carrier  Passengers (arriving and departing)
Warbelow's
440(98.88%)
Everts Air
10(1.12%)
Top domestic destinations: January – December 2015 [9]
RankCityAirportPassengers
1 Flag of Alaska.svg Fairbanks, AK Fairbanks International Airport 250

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Form 5010 for CRC PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. effective January 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "Circle City Airport (IATA: IRC, ICAO: PACR, FAA: CRC)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Cartago-Santa Ana Airport, Colombia (IATA: CRC, ICAO: SKGO)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
  7. ↑ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Archived from the original on July 28, 2009. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Warbelow's Flight Schedule". Warbelow's Air Ventures. Archived from the original on July 8, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Circle, AK: Circle (IRC)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation. December 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2017.

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