PAWI
Wainwright Airport
VFR
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Name
Wainwright Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
PAWI / AIN / PAWI
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- Region
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Timezone
9:25 am (AKST)
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Municipality
Wainwright
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Coordinates
70° 38′ 16″ N 159° 59′ 41″ E
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Elevation
41 ft (12 m MSL)
About Wainwright Airport
Wainwright Airport (IATA: AIN, ICAO: PAWI, FAA LID: AWI, formerly 5WW) is a public use airport located in Wainwright, a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the North Slope Borough.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,547 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 3,770 enplanements in 2009, and 4,129 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AWI by the FAA and AIN by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is PAWI.