Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base is a privately owned, public use

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base located at the harbor of

Ketchikan Ketchikan ( ; tli, Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough of Alaska. It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic District. With a population at the 20 ...

, a city in the

Ketchikan Gateway Borough Ketchikan Gateway Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census its population was 13,948, up from 13,477 in 2010. The borough seat is Ketchikan. The borough is the second most populous borough in Southeast Al ...

of the

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. It is located near the

Ketchikan International Airport Ketchikan International Airport is a state-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Ketchikan, a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in Alaska, U.S. state that has no direct road ...

, which also has its own seaplane landing area. Prior to the opening of the Ketchikan International Airport in 1973, scheduled passenger seaplane service was operated with

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between the seaplane base and the

Annette Island Airport Annette Island Airport is located on Annette Island in the Prince of Wales – Hyder Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is privately owned by the Metlakatla Indian Community. It is located south of Metlakatla, Alaska. The ...

located approximately 20 miles south, as this land plane airfield previously served as the primary airport for Ketchikan, with scheduled airline flights being operated by

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and

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into Annette Island over the years. As per

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records, the airport had 38,945 passenger boardings (enplanements) in

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2008, 40,462 enplanements in 2009, and 43,737 in 2010.

Facilities and aircraft

Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base has one

landing area designated NW/SE which measures 10,000 x 1,500 ft. (3,048 x 457 m) For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 10,450 aircraft operations, an average of 28 per day. At that time there were 51 aircraft based at this airport.

Airlines and destinations

The following

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s offer scheduled passenger service:

References

External links

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