Wainwright Airport (Alaska)

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Coordinates: 70°38′17″N 159°59′41″W / 70.63806, -159.99472

Wainwright Airport

IATA: AIN – ICAO: PAWI – FAA: AWI
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner North Slope Borough
Serves Wainwright, Alaska
Elevation AMSL 41 ft / 12 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 4,494 1,370 Gravel
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations 1,100
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Wainwright Airport (IATA: AIN, ICAO: PAWI, FAA LID: AWI, formerly 5WW) is a public-use airport located in Wainwright, a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by North Slope Borough.[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Wainwright Airport is assigned AWI by the FAA and AIN by the IATA.[2] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAWI[3].

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Wainwright Airport has one runway (5/23) with a 4,494 x 90 ft. (1,370 x 27 m) gravel surface. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,100 aircraft operations, an average of 3 per day: 73% air taxi and 27% general aviation.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for AWI (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
  2. ^ Great Circle Mapper: AIN / PAWI - Wainwright, Alaska
  3. ^ FAA: Alaska Identifiers

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