Hughes Airport is a state-owned public-use
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...
located one
nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the
central business district of
Hughes, a city in the
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the
U.S. state
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of
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. ...
.
As per
Federal Aviation Administration
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records, this airport had 1,148 passenger boardings (enplanements) in
calendar year 2007, an increase of 1% from the 1,137 enplanements in 2006.
Facilities and aircraft
Hughes Airport 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 ...
(17/25) with a
gravel surface measuring 3,380 by 100 feet (1,030 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,480 aircraft operations, an average of 123 per month: 74%
air taxi
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In 2001 air taxi operations were promoted in the United States by a NASA and aerospace industry study on the potential Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) ...
, 25%
general aviation
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and 1% military.
Airlines and destinations
The following
airline
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s offer scheduled passenger service at this airport:
References
External links
FAA Alaska airport diagram( GIF)
Airports in the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
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