Port Alexander Seaplane Base is a city owned, public use

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base located in Port Alexander, a city at the southeastern corner of

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in the Petersburg Borough of the

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. It is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which

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it as a ''

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'' facility. As per

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records, the airport had 139 passenger boardings (enplanements) in

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2008, 189 enplanements in 2009, and 146 in 2010. Scheduled airline passenger service is subsidized by the

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via the

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program. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and IATA, Port Alexander is assigned AHP by the FAA and PTD by the IATA. The airport's

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identifier is PAAP.

Facilities and aircraft

Port Alexander Seaplane Base has one

landing area designated N/S which measures 3,000 by 300 feet (914 x 91 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 325 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per month: 77%

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and 23%

Airlines and destinations

The following

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offers scheduled passenger service:

References

Other sources

* Essential Air Service documents
Docket DOT-OST-1999-6244
from the

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: *
Order 2004-4-11 (April 16, 2004)
tentatively re-selects Harris Aircraft Services, Inc. (Harris Air), to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Port Alexander, Alaska, for a new, two-year period, through February 28, 2006, at an annual subsidy rate of $35,206. *
Order 2006-4-12 (April 7, 2006)
selecting Harris Aircraft Services, Inc. (Harris Air), to continue providing essential air service (EAS) at Port Alexander, Alaska, for a new two-year period, through February 29, 2008, at an annual subsidy rate of $48,746. *
Order 2008-1-5 (January 11, 2008)
selected Harris Aircraft Services, Inc. (Harris Air), to continue to provide essential air service (EAS) at Port Alexander, Alaska, for the two-year period through February 28, 2010, and established an annual subsidy rate of $49,739, for service consisting of two nonstop round trips each week to Sitka with 3-seat Cessna 185 aircraft. *
Order 2009-12-3 (December 7, 2009)
selecting Harris Aircraft Services, Inc. (Harris Air), to continue providing essential air service (EAS) at Port Alexander, Alaska, and establishing an annual subsidy rate of $60,083, for a new two-year period, through February 29, 2012. *
Order 2012-2-15 (February 21, 2012)
selecting Harris Aircraft Services, Inc. ("Harris Air"), to continue providing Essential Air Service (EAS) at Port Alexander, Alaska, for the two-year period through February 28, 2014, and establishing an annual subsidy rate of $75,293, for service consisting of two nonstop round trips each week to Sitka with 3-seat

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aircraft.

External links

Harris Air

Topographic map
from

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