Kake Seaplane Base

Kake Seaplane Base
IATA: KAE – ICAO: none – FAA LID: KAE
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner State of Alaska DOT&PF - Southeast Region
Serves Kake, Alaska
Elevation AMSL 0 ft / 0 m
Coordinates
Map
KAE
Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
NW/SE 10,000 3,048 Water
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations 1,000
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Kake Seaplane Base (IATA: KAE, FAA LID: KAE) is a public-use seaplane base located in Kake,[1] a city in the Petersburg Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility (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]

Contents

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service at this airport:

Airlines Destinations
Air Excursions Juneau[5]
Wings of Alaska Juneau
Carrier shares for August 2010 - July 2011[6]
Carrier Passengers (arriving and departing)
Excursions
2,300(88.24%)
Wings of Alaska
280(10.80%)
SeaPort
30(0.96%)
Top domestic destinations
(August 2010 - July 2011)[6]
Rank City Airport Passengers
1 Juneau, AK JNU 1,000
2 Yakutat, AK YAK <1,000
3 Anchorage, AK ANC <1,000

See also

References

  1. ^ a b FAA Airport Master Record for KAE (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 25 August 2011.
  2. ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB)". National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. 4 October 2010. http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf. 
  3. ^ "Enplanements for CY 2008 (PDF, 1.0 MB)". CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. 18 December 2009. http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy08_all_enplanements.pdf. 
  4. ^ "Enplanements for CY 2010 (PDF, 5.4 MB)". CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. 4 October 2011. http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy10_all_enplanements.pdf. 
  5. ^ "Destinations". Air Excursions. http://www.airexcursions.com/destinations.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2011. 
  6. ^ a b "Kake, AK: Kake Sea Plane Base (KAE)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics. July 2011. http://www.transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp?pn=1&Airport=KAE&End_YearMonth=24139. 

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