Quinhagak Airport

Quinhagak Airport
Kwinhagak Airport
IATA: KWN – ICAO: PAQH – FAA LID: AQH
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Native Village of Kwinhagak
Serves Quinhagak, Alaska
Elevation AMSL 42 ft / 13 m
Coordinates 59°45′18″N 161°50′43″W / 59.75500°N 161.84528°W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 4,000 1,219 Gravel

Quinhagak Airport (IATA: KWN, ICAO: PAQH, FAA LID: AQH), is a public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) east of the central business district of Quinhagak[1] (also spelled Kwinhagak), a city in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is also known as Kwinhagak Airport.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AQH by the FAA[1] and KWN by the IATA.[2] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAQH.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Quinhagak Airport covers an area of 123 acres (50 ha) at an elevation of 42 feet (13 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 12/30 with a gravel surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m).[1] The runway was expanded from its former size of 2,600 by 60 feet (792 m × 18 m).[4]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Yute Air Bethel, Eek

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes out of KWN
(July 2010 - June 2011)[5]
Rank City Passengers Carriers
1 Alaska Bethel, AK 4,000 Yute, Grant, Hageland
2 Alaska Eek, AK 1,000 Grant, Hageland

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 FAA Airport Master Record for AQH (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
  2. ↑ "KWN / PAQH - Quinhagak, Alaska". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  3. ↑ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  4. ↑ "Diagram of Quinhagak Airport" (GIF). Federal Aviation Administration, Alaska Region. 2004-06-10.
  5. ↑ http://www.transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp?pn=1&Airport=KWN&Airport_Name=Quinhagak,%20AK:%20Kwinhagak&carrier=FACTS

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