Nuiqsut Airport is a 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 surface ...

located in

Nuiqsut Nuiqsut ( ik, Nuiqsat, ) is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 433 at the 2000 census and 402 as of the 2010 census. Geography Nuiqsut is located at (70.216338, -151.005725). Nuiqsut is in the North Slop ...

, a city in the

North Slope Borough The North Slope Borough is the northernmost borough in the US state of Alaska and thus, the northernmost county or equivalent of the United States as a whole. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,031. The borough seat and largest city i ...

of 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., ...

. It is owned by North Slope Borough. 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 AQT by the FAA and NUI by the IATA. The airport's

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identifier is PAQT.

Facilities and aircraft

Nuiqsut Airport has one

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designated 4/22 with a

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surface measuring 4,343 by 90 feet (1,324 x 27 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,800 aircraft operations, an average of 150 per month: 83%

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, 11%

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and 6%

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Airlines and destinations

Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.

Top destinations

References

External links

FAA Alaska airport diagram
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