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Attu Airport terminal. Casco Cove Coast Guard Station (IATA: ATU [2], ICAO: PAAT, FAA LID: ATU) was a military facility and private use airfield on Attu Island, one of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Owned by the United States Coast Guard, [1] Casco Cove CGS is located 1,481 miles (2,383 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska.
Attu is a census-designated place (CDP) located on Attu Island in the Aleutians West Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.The population was 21 at the 2010 census, [4] consisting entirely of coast guard personnel who resided and worked at Casco Cove Coast Guard Station, but left the island when the station was closed in August 2010, leaving it uninhabited.
Attu Heliport (IATA: QGQ, ICAO: BGAT) is a heliport in Attu, a village in the southernmost part of Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland, on the shore of Davis Strait. The heliport is considered a helistop , and is served by Air Greenland as part of government contract.
At the time, the airport on Attu was the westernmost airfield located in the U.S. to have scheduled passenger airline service. In 1984, the "392" exchange in the 907 area code, which includes Attu (and whose rate center is on nearby Shemya Island), became the last telephone exchange in the United States to be upgraded to dial service.
Area code 903 was created November 4, 1990 in a split of area code 214. Area code 430 was assigned to the same service area on February 15, 2003 in creation of an overlay . Before October 18, 1980, area code 903 was assigned to an area in northwestern Mexico.
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Navy Town is a formerly populated place in the Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States.It is located on the southeast coast of Attu Island, on the western shore of Massacre Bay, and was named during the military occupation of the area in World War II. [1]
The naval facilities on Japonski Island eventually grew to include several hangars, ramps into the water to facilitate the movement of seaplanes onto land, a large concrete parking area, a control tower, two piers, and a number of ancillary support buildings.