Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base is a privately owned, public use
seaplane
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base located at the harbor of
Ketchikan,
a city in the
Ketchikan Gateway Borough of the
U.S. state
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of
Alaska
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. It is located near the
Ketchikan International Airport, 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
amphibian aircraft between the seaplane base and the
Annette Island Airport 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
Pan American World Airways
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,
Pacific Northern Airlines and
Western Airlines into Annette Island over the years.
As per
Federal Aviation Administration
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records, the airport had 38,945 passenger boardings (enplanements) in
calendar year
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The Gregorian calendar year, which is in use as civil calendar in ...
2008, 40,462 enplanements in 2009, and 43,737 in 2010.
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Facilities and aircraft
Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base has one
seaplane
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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
airline
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s offer scheduled passenger service:
See also
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List of airports in Alaska
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References
External links
Airports in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
Ketchikan, Alaska
Seaplane bases in Alaska
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