Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport

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Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport

IATA: SIT - ICAO: PASI - FAA: SIT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		State of Alaska DOT&PF
Serves		Sitka, Alaska
Elevation AMSL		21 ft (6.4 m)
Coordinates		57°02′50″N, 135°21′42″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
11/29	6,500	1,981	Asphalt

Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport (IATA: SIT, ICAO: PASI, FAA LID: SIT) is a public airport owned and operated by the State of Alaska located on Japonski Island in southwestern Sitka, Alaska, U.S.

The airport is named after Sitka's former mayor Rocky Gutierrez. It features a single terminal with a jetway for the sole jet service provider, Alaska Airlines. There is a single runway that juts off Japonski Island as a paved causeway of sorts. The airport terminal features a restaurant, a gift shop, coffee stand, Alaska Airlines and Harris Air check in (although the latter, since the completion of their new hangar, has moved most operations to that space), TSA baggage screening, baggage claim, car rentals, and a secured area for boarding.

The airport also has hangars for air traffic control, Civil Air Patrol, and private enterprises. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka also has a complex attached to the airport for their helicopters but the installation almost never uses runway space for their operations.

Safety hazards include boulders from the causeway washing onto the runway during storms, high winds because of its exposed location, and large flocks of birds that live very close to the airport.

Deceased tuberculosis patients from the nearby SEARHC/Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital were buried on airport grounds and had to be relocated during construction. That section of the airport is still unofficially called The Mausoleum.

[edit] Airlines and destination

Alaska Airlines (Juneau, Ketchikan, Seattle/Tacoma [seasonal])
Harris Aircraft Services (Charters, Baranof Warm Springs, Kake, Klawock, Port Alexander)