| Whittier Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: none – ICAO: PAWR – FAA LID: IEM | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Alaska DOT&PF - Central Region | ||
| Serves | Whittier, Alaska | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 30 ft / 8 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 3/21 | 1,480 | 451 | Gravel |
| Statistics (2005) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 770 | ||
| Based aircraft | 2 | ||
| Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] | |||
Whittier Airport (ICAO: PAWR, FAA LID: IEM) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the central business district of Whittier,[1] a city in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is situated on the northeast shore of the Kenai Peninsula.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned IEM by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[2] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAWR.[3]
Whittier Airport has one runway designated 3/21 with a gravel surface measuring 1,480 by 58 feet (451 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 700 aircraft operations, an average of 64 per month: 97% general aviation and 3% air taxi.At that time there were two single-engine aircraft based at this airport.[1] The runway was 500 feet longer but was damaged by the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake.
