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Naval Air Facility Adak (IATA: ADK, ICAO: PADK, FAA LID: ADK), was a United States Navy airport located west of Adak, on Adak Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] After its closure in 1997, it was reopened as Adak Airport .
NSGA Marietta, Washington closed in 1972 and reverted to a Lummi reservation. [17] ... NSGA Adak Adak, Alaska Shut down 1994, later demolished. ...
The district's sole school was the K-12 Adak Naval Station School, which had 37 teachers and 551 students circa October 1978. [2] Ed Gilley was the final superintendent of the district; he was hired for the position in 1989. Circa 1994 the final student left the Adak district as the Adak Naval Air Station closed. [3]
The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It featured tropospheric scatter links and line-of-sight microwave radio links .
Adak first appeared on the 2000 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP), [12] although it previously was the Adak Naval Station from 1970 [13] [14] to 1990. [15] In 2001, it formally incorporated as a city. As of the 2010 census, Adak was the only city in Alaska to have a majority Asian population (171 of 326 residents).
Nov. 9—Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 24 Nuna Sheldon-Cook walks along Fourth Avenue during a snowfall on November 9, 2023. (Marc Lester / ADN) More than a foot of snow — in some areas more than 2 ...
A second generation WADR allowed the consolidation of the Aleutian station at Adak in 1993, the North Atlantic's Argentia in 1995, and those termed "Special Projects" in 1997 and 1998. [ 22 ] The western Atlantic system consolidation was centered on the establishment of the Naval Ocean Processing Facility (NOPF) at Dam Neck, Virginia beginning ...
Order 2008-3-36: re-selecting Alaska Airlines to provide essential air service at Adak, Alaska, at an annual subsidy rate of $1,483,122, and Peninsula Airways for $513,803 at Atka and $469,786 at Nikolski. The three rates extend through June 30, 2010.