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Alakanuk Airport
Alakanuk Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located west of the central business district of Alakanuk, a city in the Kusilvak Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 4,015 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 3,302 enplanements in 2009, and 3,213 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''non-primary commercial service'' airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year). Facilities Alakanuk Airport was moved to a new location in 2012; previously, it was located southwest of the town, at an elevation of 10 feet (3 m) above mean sea level. It had one runway designated 18/36 with a gravel and dirt surface measuring 2,200 by 55 feet (671 x 17 m). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaska DOT&PF
The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is a department within the government of Alaska. Its headquarters are in Alaska's capital city, Juneau. The mission of Alaska DOT&PF is to "''Keep Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure.''" The Alaska Department of Transportation was established on July 1, 1977, by Alaska Highway Commissioner Walter Parker during the administration of Governor Jay Hammond. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities merged the former departments of Highways and Public Works. Alaska DOT&PF designs, constructs, operates and maintains the state's transportation infrastructure systems, buildings, and other facilities used by Alaskans and visitors. These include more than 5,600 miles of paved and gravel highways; more than 300 aviation facilities, including 235 rural airports and 2 international airports (Fairbanks International Airport and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport); 839 public faciliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airline
An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an Air operator's certificate, air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body. Airlines may be scheduled or Air charter, charter operators. The List of airlines by foundation date, first airline was the German airship company DELAG, founded on November 16, 1909. The four oldest non-airship airlines that still exist are the Netherlands' KLM (1919), Colombia's Avianca (1919), Australia's Qantas (1920) and the Czech Republic's Czech Airlines (1923). Airline ownership has seen a shift from mostly personal ownership until the 1930s to government-ownership of major airlines from the 1940s to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USGS
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization's work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879. The USGS is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior; it is that department's sole scientific agency. The USGS employs approximately 8,670 people and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The USGS also has major offices near Lakewood, Colorado, at the Denver Federal Center, and Menlo Park, California. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on the occasion of its hundredth anniv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Village Airport
Mountain Village Airport is a public-use airport located in Mountain Village, a city in the Kusilvak Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) - Northern Region. Facilities Mountain Village Airport has one runway designated 2/20 with a 3,500 x 75 ft (1,067 x 23 m) gravel surface. Airlines and destinations Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations. Top destinations See also * List of airports in Alaska References External links FAA Alaska airport diagram(GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. ...) * Airports in the Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska {{Alaska-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Village, AK
Mountain Village ( esu, Asaacaryaraq) is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States, located on the Yukon River near the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. At the 2010 census the population was 813, up from 755 in 2000. Geography Mountain Village is located at (62.090075, -163.723936). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.80 square miles (96.3 km2), all of it land. Climate Mountain Village has a subarctic climate (Dfc) with short, mild summers with cool nights and long, cold winters. Precipitation peaks during August. Demographics Mountain Village first appeared on the 1920 U.S. Census as the unincorporated village of "Mountain." It continued to report as Mountain until its incorporation as Mountain Village in 1967. As of the census of 2000, there were 755 people, 183 households, and 146 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 211 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotlik Airport
Kotlik Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) west of the central business district of Kotlik, a city in the Kusilvak Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, this airport had 4,117 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2007, an increase of 14% from the 3,654 enplanements in 2006. Facilities Kotlik Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 15 feet (5 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with a 4,422 x 100 ft (1,348 x 30 m) gravel surface. Airlines and destinations Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations. Top destinations See also * List of airports in Alaska References External links FAA Alaska airport diagram(GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotlik, AK
Kotlik ( esu, Qerrulliik, russian: Котлик) is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 577, down from 591 in 2000. Geography Kotlik is located at . Kotlik is located on the east bank of the Kotlik Slough, 35 miles northeast of Emmonak in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (17.85%) is water. The climate of Kotlik is subarctic. Temperatures range between -50 and 87. There is an average of 60 inches of snowfall and 16 inches of precipitation annually. The Yupik village of Bill Moore's Slough is contained within Kotlik. Demographics Kotlik first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated Inuit village of 8 residents. In 1890, it reported 31 residents, of which 9 were native (presumably Inuit) and 22 were "Creole" (mixed Native and Russian).http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v8-01. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethel, AK
Bethel ( esu, Mamterilleq) is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is the largest community on the Kuskokwim River, located approximately upriver from where the river flows into Kuskokwim Bay. It is also the largest city in western Alaska and in the Unorganized Borough, as well as the eighth-largest in the state. Bethel has a population of 6,325 as of the 2020 census, up from 6,080 in 2010. Annual events in Bethel include the Kuskokwim 300, a dogsled race; Camai, a Yup'ik dance festival held each spring; and the Bethel Fair held in August. History Southwestern Alaska has been the homelands of Yup'ik peoples and their ancestors for thousands of years. The residents of what became Bethel were called the Mamterillermiut, meaning "Smokehouse People", after their nearby fish smokehouse. In the late 19th century, the Alaska Commercial Company established a trading post in the town, called Mumtrekhlogamute, which had a population of 41 people by the 1880 US Cens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmonak, AK
Emmonak ( esu, Imangaq) is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 762, down from 767 in 2000. Geography Emmonak is located in the large delta of the Yukon River at (62.777328, -164.544920). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (13.08%) is water. Emmonak is one of the last permanent settlements along the Yukon before it empties out into Bering Sea. Climate Demographics Emmonak first appeared on the 1970 U.S. Census as an incorporated city (having incorporated in 1964), although was erroneously called "Emanguk." It was the successor community to Kwiguk, which was located a mile and a half south, most of whose residents removed to the new village of Emmonak in 1964 after flooding damaged the old village, including their cannery. As of the census of 2000, there were 767 people, 189 households, and 150 families residing in the city. The population de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Research And Innovative Technology Administration
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) is a unit of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). It was created in 2005 to advance transportation science, technology, and analysis, as well as improve the coordination of transportation research within the department and throughout the transportation community. RITA performs four basic functions: #Coordinates the USDOT's research and education programs #Shares advanced technologies with the transportation system #Offers transportation statistics and analysis for decision-making #Supports national efforts to improve education and training in transportation-related fields RITA has over 750 employees in Washington, DC, at the Volpe Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and at the Transportation Safety Institute (Oklahoma City, OK). History RITA was created under the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Program Improvement Act, and opened its doors on February 22, 2005. RITA's formation was part of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of Transportation Statistics
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), part of the United States Department of Transportation, is a government office that compiles, analyzes, and publishes information on the nation's transportation systems across various modes; and strives to improve the DOT's statistical programs through research and the development of guidelines for data collection and analysis. BTS is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. History BTS was created in 1992 under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. On February 20, 2005, BTS became part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). Through the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act passed on December 4, 2015, BTS and RITA moved to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Research and Technology. Since 2009, BTS has also maintained a Twitterbr>feed with regular tweets related to the release of BTS data products and news bulletins concerning transpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hageland Aviation
Hageland Aviation Services (Defunct) was a regional FAR Part 135 airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It operated as the Ravn Connect component of Ravn Alaska, serving many destinations throughout Alaska. History The airline was established in 1981 in Mountain Village, Alaska. Frontier Alaska and Hageland combined in 2008 to form the parent company HoTH and rebrand their new services as "Frontier Alaska." The following year, with the acquisition of Era, Frontier Alaska was rebranded as Era Alaska. Operations ceased with the collapse and bankruptcy of Ravn Alaska. Fleet * 7 Beechcraft 1900 * 7 Piper PA-31 * 19 Cessna 207 * 22 Cessna Caravan 208B Destinations Hageland Aviation Services operated scheduled service to the following destinations in Alaska (): # Akiachak (KKI) - Akiachak Airport # Akiak (AKI) - Akiak Airport # Alakanuk (AUK) - Alakanuk Airport # Ambler (ABL) - Ambler Airport # Anchorage (ANC) - Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (Hub) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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