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Ketchikan Airport
Airport Directory » United States » Ketchikan » Ketchikan AirportKetchikan International Airport (IATA: KTN, ICAO: PAKT, FAA LID: KTN) is a state-owned public-use airport turn up 1 naut mi (two kilometre) due west of the central downtown of Ketchikan, a town in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in the U.S. province of Alaska.
The airport is turn up on Gravina Island, merely due west of Ketchikan on the other side of the Tongass Narrows. Passengers moldiness take a seven-minute ferry sit across the water to get to the airport from the city.
History
Around the World War II epoch, air service to Ketchikan was possible using an old armed forces field on Annette Island. Aircraft used in that epoch included the Grumman Goose and Catalina PBY. The current airport was opened on August 4th, 1973 and give the coming after solar day. The airport opening was the apogee of an attempt by local inhabitants, a 1965 survey by the Alaska State Division of Aviation, another survey in 1967 pick out the current location on Gravina Island, and district uncluttering in 1969.
Facilities and aircraft
Ketchikan International Airport covers an area of 2,600 acres (1,052 ha) at an lift of 88 human foot (27 m) above average sea stage. It has 1 landing track denominated 11/29 with 7,500 x 150 foot (2,286 x 46 m) asphalt paving. It also has a hydroplane territory area denominated NWW/SEW which measure out 9,500 x 1,500 foot (2,896 x 457 m).
For the 12-month time period finish January 1, 2006, the airport had 16,208 aircraft functioning, an mean of 44 per solar day: 60% air cab, 33% scheduled commercial, 6% civil aviation and 1% armed forces. At that clip there were 13 aircraft ground at this airport: 77% single-engine, 8% multi-engine and 15% eggbeater.
In 2004, a new taxi strip "Bravo" was added to alleviate cabbing to the finish of the often used landing track 11 (the landing track is turn up approximately 30 human foot (9.1 m) higher than the apron further up the hillside, claim long, gently pitched taxi strip to either finish). Before that taxi strip, some little airplanes were let to use taxi strip "Alpha" to start out and district because it was not worthwhile to backtaxi on the existent landing track. In addition this lets the airport's system of taxi strip to be used by more than 1 airplane at one time. More late the airport is using to build another landing track on a different caput which is more better fit to manage the infamous crosswinds, sometimes up to 90 knots (170 kilometres per hour). These airs current have been known to blow draw close aeroplanes out across Tongass Narrows in sure statuses.
Proposed road access
Main article: Gravina Island BridgeThere is no road access between Ketchikan and the airport. A span, sometimes bring up to "span to nowhere", was advised costing an judged $398 million. After continued attending to the high cost of the span, the U.S. federal authority modified its original determination to monetary fund the span in 2007. The money was reassigned to the province of Alaska to find out the use of the monetary funds.
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