Emmonak 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 in
Emmonak,
a city in the
Kusilvak Census Area of the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
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. ...
.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
location identifier
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for the
FAA
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and
IATA, this airport is assigned ENM by the FAA
and EMK by the IATA. The airport's
ICAO identifier is PAEM.
Facilities
Emmonak 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 ...
designated 16/34 with a
gravel surface measuring 4,601 by 100 feet (1,402 x 30 m).
Airline and destinations
Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.
Statistics
See also
*
List of airports in Alaska
References
External links
FAA Alaska airport diagram( GIF)
*
Airports in the Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska
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