Tokeen Seaplane Base is a public use

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base located in Tokeen, in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area in 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., ...

. 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 TKI by the IATA and 57A by the FAA (which assigned TKI to

McKinney National Airport McKinney National Airport , formerly Collin County Regional Airport at McKinney, is a general aviation airport located in McKinney, Texas, United States, about 30 miles north of downtown Dallas. The airport is a reliever airport for Dallas Lov ...

McKinney, Texas McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. The U.S. Census Bureau l ...

Great Circle Mapper: KTKI - McKinney, Texas (Collin County Regional Airport)
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Facilities and aircraft

Tokeen Seaplane Base has one

landing area designated NE/SW which measures 6,000 by 400 feet (1,829 x 122 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 55 aircraft operations, an average of 4 per month: 91%

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and 9%

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FAA Alaska airport diagram
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) Seaplane bases in Alaska Airports in the Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area, Alaska {{Alaska-airport-stub

Facilities and aircraft

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