Kake Seaplane Base

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Kake Seaplane Base
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner State of Alaska DOT&PF - Southeast Region
Serves Kake, Alaska
Elevation  AMSL 0 ft / 0 m
Coordinates 56°58′23″N133°56′44″W / 56.97306°N 133.94556°W / 56.97306; -133.94556
Map
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KAE
Location of airport in Alaska
Kake Seaplane Base
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
NW/SE10,0003,048Water
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations1,000

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.

Contents

This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a general aviation airport based on 1,598 enplanements in 2012 (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year). [2] As per Federal Aviation Administration records, it had 1,564 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [3] 1,255 enplanements in 2009, and 1,440 in 2010. [4]

Airlines and destinations

The following airline offers scheduled passenger service:

AirlinesDestinations
Alaska Seaplanes Juneau, Petersburg, Sitka [5]

Statistics

Carrier shares: January - December 2012 [6]
CarrierPassengers (arriving and departing)
Excursions
3,010(100%)
Top domestic destinations: Jan. - Dec. 2012 [6]
RankCityAirportPassengers
1 Juneau, AK Juneau International Airport (JNU) 1,470

See also

References

  1. 1 2 FAA Airport Form 5010 for KAE PDF . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective August 25, 2011.
  2. "Appendix A: List of NPIAS Airports with 5-Year Forecast Activity and Development Estimate" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report. Federal Aviation Administration. Archived from the original (PDF (7.89 MB)) on February 22, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  3. "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. 18 December 2009.
  4. "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. 4 October 2011.
  5. "Alaska Seaplanes Fall Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  6. 1 2 "Kake, AK: Kake Seaplane Base (KAE)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics. December 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2013.

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