Nuiqsut Airport

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Nuiqsut Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner North Slope Borough
Serves Nuiqsut, Alaska
Elevation  AMSL 38 ft / 12 m
Coordinates 70°12′36″N151°00′20″W / 70.21000°N 151.00556°W / 70.21000; -151.00556
Map
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NUI
Location of Nuiqsut Airport
Nuiqsut Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
4/224,3431,324Gravel
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations1,800

Nuiqsut Airport( IATA : NUI, ICAO : PAQT, FAA LID : AQT) is a public use airport located in Nuiqsut, [1] a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by North Slope Borough. [1]

Contents

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AQT by the FAA [1] and NUI by the IATA. [2] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAQT. [3]

Facilities and aircraft

Nuiqsut Airport has one runway designated 4/22 with a gravel surface measuring 4,343 by 90 feet (1,324 x 27 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,800 aircraft operations, an average of 150 per month: 83% air taxi, 11% military and 6% general aviation. [1]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Wright Air Service Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay, Utqiagvik

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes out of NUI
(June 2010 - May 2011) [4]
RankCityPassengersCarriers
— Flag of Alaska.svg Utqiagvik, AK 1,000Frontier Flying, Hageland
— Flag of Alaska.svg Deadhorse, AK 1,000Frontier Flying, Hageland

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Form 5010 for AQT PDF , effective 2009-07-02.
  2. ↑ "NUI / PAQT - Nuiqsut, Alaska". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  3. ↑ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  4. ↑ "BTS | Transtats Airports".


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