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Lake Hood Seaplane Base (ICAO: PALH, FAA LID: LHD) is a state-owned seaplane base located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) southwest of the central business district of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] The Lake Hood Strip (ICAO: PALH, FAA LID: LHD) is a gravel runway located adjacent to the
Driftwood Bay Air Force Station (ICAO: PAAM, FAA LID: AK23) is a private use military airstrip located 13 nautical miles (15 mi, 24 km) northwest of Unalaska Island, in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.
The Alaska Aviation Museum, previously the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, is located on Lake Hood Seaplane Base in Anchorage, Alaska.Its mission since 1988, is to preserve, display, and honor Alaska's aviation heritage, by preserving and displaying historic aircraft, artifacts, and memorabilia, and to foster public interest in aviation and its history.
Eareckson Air Station (IATA: SYA, ICAO: PASY), formerly Shemya Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force military airport located on the island of Shemya, in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. The airport was closed as an active Air Force Station on 1 July 1994.
Built in 1951, the airport was served in the 1950s by Alaska Airlines, Northwest Orient, Pacific Northern Airlines and Reeve Aleutian Airways, using aircraft ranging from Douglas DC-3s to Boeing 377s, [6] and was also a refuelling stop for Canadian Pacific Air Lines service to the Far East (one such aircraft being involved in a 1951 disappearance).
Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport has one asphalt paved runway (8/26) measuring 7,100 ft × 150 ft (2,164 m × 46 m). [1]For the 12-month period ending 11 January 2011, the airport had 12,010 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 50% air taxi, 37% general aviation, 12% scheduled commercial and fewer than 1% military.
Prior to the opening of the Ketchikan airport in 1973, Alaska Airlines was also operating scheduled flights with Super Catalina and Grumman Goose prop-driven amphibian aircraft on the short hop between Annette Island Airport and the Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base serving Ketchikan as well as to other local destinations in southeast Alaska. [10]
St. Paul Island Airport has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,500 by 150 feet (1,981 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 410 aircraft operations, an average of 34 per month: 63% air taxi, 24% military and 12% general aviation.