Shishmaref Airport

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Coordinates: 66°14′58″N 166°05′22″W / 66.24944, -166.08944

Shishmaref Airport

IATA: SHH – ICAO: PASH – FAA: SHH
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region
Serves Shishmaref, Alaska
Elevation AMSL 12 ft / 4 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
5/23 5,000 1,524 Asphalt
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Shishmaref Airport (IATA: SHH, ICAO: PASH, FAA LID: SHH) is a state-owned public-use airport located one mile (2 km) south of the central business district of Shishmaref, a village in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 5/23 and measuring 5,000 x 70 ft. (1,524 x 21 m).[1] Shishmaref is located on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait and five miles from the mainland.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 4,395 commercial passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 5,040 enplanements (4,593 scheduled and 447 unscheduled) in 2006.[2] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, it is classified as commercial service - non-primary because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b FAA Airport Master Record for SHH (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
  2. ^ FAA Passenger Boarding Data: 2005 and 2006
  3. ^ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011

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