| Nome Airport | |||
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| IATA: OME – ICAO: PAOM – FAA LID: OME
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region | ||
| Serves | Nome, Alaska | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 37 ft / 11 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 3/21 | 5,576 | 1,700 | Asphalt |
| 10/28 | 6,001 | 1,829 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2008) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 28,000 | ||
| Based aircraft | 71 | ||
| Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||
Nome Airport (IATA: OME, ICAO: PAOM, FAA LID: OME) is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of Nome, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.[1]
The State of Alaska also operates Nome City Field (FAA LID: 94Z), a public general aviation airfield located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the city.[2][3]
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Nome Airport has two asphalt paved runways: 3/21 measures 5,576 by 150 feet (1,700 x 46 m) and 10/28 is 6,001 by 150 feet (1,829 x 46 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending November 1, 2008, the airport had 28,000 aircraft operations, an average of 76 per day: 54% air taxi, 36% general aviation, 5% scheduled commercial and 5% military. At that time there were 71 aircraft based at this airport: 72% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, 7% helicopter and 4% military.[1]
Free parking is available at the airport.
Located near the airport is a pizza restaurant named Airport Pizza. The pizza parlor is famous for its use of Bering Air flights to deliver pizza for free to far-flung Alaskan villages.[4]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Alaska Airlines | Anchorage, Kotzebue |
| Arctic Transportation Services | Brevig Mission, Elim, Gambell, Golovin,Savoonga, Shishmaref, Teller, Unalakleet, Wales, White Mountain |
| Bering Air | Anadyr, Brevig Mission, Council, Elim, Gambell, Golovin, Kotzebue, Koyuk, Little Diomede, Port Clarence, Provideniya, Saint Michael, Savoonga, Shaktoolik, Shishmaref, Stebbins, Teller, Tin City, Unalakeet, Wales, White Mountain[5] |
| Era Alaska | Elim, Gambell, Galena, Golovin, Savoonga, Shaktoolik, Shishmaref, Stebbins, White Mountain, Brevig Mission, Teller, Wales, Unalakeet |
| Evergreen Helicopters | Wales, Little Diomede |
Nome Airport was used as a transport base during World War II, facilitating the transit of Lend-Lease aircraft to the Soviet Union. Known as Marks Army Airfield it shared the facility with the civilian Nome Airport. It also was used as a defensive airfield in 1942 by the United States Army Air Force for the western coast of Alaska. Known USAAF units assigned were:
Renamed Marks Air Force Base in 1948, it was used as a cold weather survival school and a fighter-interceptor forward base. Marks was too close to the USSR to operate defending fighter-interceptors, so they were pulled back to Galena Airport. Although Marks AFB closed in 1950, an air base squadron was at Nome Airport until December 1956.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
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