Hoonah 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 (2
km) southeast of the
central business district of
Hoonah, Alaska
Hoonah ( tli, Xunaa or ''Gaaw Yat’aḵ Aan'') is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of the state. It is west of Juneau, across the Alaskan Inside Passage. Hoonah is the only ...
.
This airport is included in the
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which
categorized it as a ''nonprimary commercial service'' airport based on 9,564 enplanements in 2012. As per
Federal Aviation Administration
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records, the airport had 7,680 passenger boardings (enplanements) in
calendar year 2008, 7,651 enplanements in 2009, and 10,759 in 2010.
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Facilities and aircraft
Hoonah 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 6/24 with an
asphalt
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surface measuring 2,997 by 75 feet (913 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2007, the airport had 3,750 aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day: 80%
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) ...
and 20%
general aviation
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.
Airlines and destinations
The following
airline
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offers scheduled service:
Statistics
See also
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Hoonah Seaplane Base
*
List of airports in Alaska
References
External links
Topographic mapfrom
USGS
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Airports in the Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska
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