Coldfoot Airport is a state-owned, public-use

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located in Coldfoot, in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the

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Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

Facilities and aircraft

Coldfoot Airport covers an area of at an

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of 1,042 feet (318 m) above

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. It has one

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...

designated 1/19 with a gravel surface measuring 4,000 by 100 feet (1,219 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,000 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per month: 80%

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and 20%

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Airlines and destinations

Statistics

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* Airports in the Arctic Airports in the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska {{Alaska-airport-stub