Hydaburg Seaplane Base is a state owned, public use

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base located in

Hydaburg Hydaburg ( ) (''Higdáa G̱ándlaay'' in Haida) is a first-class city in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 382 at the 2000 census and 376 as of the 2010 census. The name "Hydaburg" ref ...

, a city in the

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of the

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. It is included in the

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

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'' facility.

Facilities and aircraft

Hydaburg Seaplane Base has one

landing area designated E/W with a

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surface measuring 5,000 by 2,000 feet (1,524 x 610 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 1,000 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per month: 50%

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and 50%

Airlines and destinations

The following

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service is subsidized by the

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via the

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program.

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket DOT-OST-1999-6245
from the

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: *
Order 2005-10-7 ( October 11, 2005)
re-selecting Venture Travel, LLC, d/b/a Taquan Air, to provide essential air service at Hydaburg, Alaska, at the annual subsidy rate of $54,733 per year for the two-year period November 1, 2005, through October 31, 2007. *
Order 2007-10-12 (October 11, 2007)
re-selecting Venture Travel, LLC, d/b/a Taquan Air Service, to provide essential air service (EAS) at Hydaburg, Alaska, for the four-year period beginning November 1, 2007, at an annual subsidy rate of $86,755. *
Order 2011-7-12 (July 27, 2011)
re-selecting Venture Travel, LLC, operating as Taquan Air Service (Taquan Air), to provide essential air service (EAS) at Hydaburg, Alaska. Taquan Air will provide three weekly nonstop round trips to Ketchikan using 6-seat de Havilland Canada

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aircraft for a four-year contract period beginning November 1, 2011, through October 31, 2015, for an annual subsidy of $151,773.

External links

Taquan Air

Topographic map
from

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