PAYA
Yakutat Airport
VFR
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Name
Yakutat Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
PAYA / YAK / PAYA
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- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
11:29 pm (AKST)
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Municipality
Yakutat
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Coordinates
59° 30′ 31″ N 139° 39′ 37″ E
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Elevation
33 ft (10 m MSL)
About Yakutat Airport
Yakutat Airport (IATA: YAK, ICAO: PAYA, FAA LID: YAK) is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Yakutat, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska which has no road access to the outside world. Airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,028 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 12,158 enplanements in 2009, and 10,035 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a primary commercial service (nonhub) airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year) based on 10,100 enplanements in CY 2012.