Circle City Airport is a state-owned public-use

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located in

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(also known as Circle City), in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the

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. It is also known as Circle City (New) Airport. Scheduled commercial airline service is subsidized by the

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program. As per

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records, the airport had 303 passenger boardings (enplanements) in

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2008, 377 enplanements in 2009, and 355 in 2010. It is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''

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'' airport (the ''commercial service'' category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year). Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and

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, this airport is assigned CRC by the FAA and IRC by the IATA (which assigned CRC to the Santa Ana Airport in Cartago,

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). The airport's

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identifier is PACR.

Facilities and aircraft

Circle City Airport covers an area of 324

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s (131 ha) at an

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of 613 feet (187 m) above

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. It has one

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designated 15/33 with a

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surface measuring 2,979 by 60 feet (908 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,110 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per month: 63%

, 36%

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, and 1%

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Airlines and destinations

The following

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s offer scheduled passenger service at this airport:

Statistics

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket OST-1998-3621
from the

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: *
Order 2003-11-1 (November 3, 2003)
re-selecting Warbelow's Air Ventures, Inc. to continue providing essential air service at Central and Circle, Alaska, for the period beginning December 1, 2003, and ending November 30, 2005, at an annual subsidy of $56,932. *
Order 2005-9-19 (September 19, 2005)
re-selecting Warbelow's Air Ventures, Inc. to provide essential air service (EAS) to Central and Circle, Alaska, and establishing a subsidy rate of $124,841 per year for service consisting of five round trips each week routed Fairbanks-Central-Circle-Fairbanks with 8-seat Piper Navajo aircraft. *
Order 2007-10-6 (October 4, 2007)
re-selecting Warbelow's Air Ventures, Inc., to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Central and Circle, Alaska, at an annual subsidy rate of $171,223 for the period of December 1, 2007, through November 30, 2009. *
Order 2009-9-17 (September 25, 2009)
re-selecting Warbelow's Air Service to provide essential air service (EAS) at Central and Circle, Alaska, at annual subsidy rate of $203,360 from December 1, 2009, through April 30, 2011. *
Order 2011-9-11 (September 15, 2011)
re-selecting Warbelow's Air Ventures, Inc., to provide essential air service (EAS) at Central and Circle, Alaska, for a combined annual subsidy of $275,598 ($137,799 for each community). Warbelow's will provide five weekly round trips over a Fairbanks-Central-Circle-Fairbanks routing from December 1, 2011, through November 30, 2013. Warbelow's will use 8-seat Piper PA31-350 aircraft but will gradually phase in 9-seat Cessna 208B aircraft as the carrier retires the PA31-350.

External links

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