Unalakleet Airport | |
Iata: | UNK |
Icao: | PAUN |
Faa: | UNK |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | State of Alaska DOT&PF |
City-Served: | Unalakleet, Alaska |
Elevation-F: | 21 |
Elevation-M: | 6 |
Coordinates: | 63.8883°N -160.7989°W |
Pushpin Map: | USA Alaska |
Pushpin Label: | UNK |
R1-Number: | 15/33 |
R1-Length-F: | 5,900 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,798 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 9/27 |
R2-Length-F: | 1,900 |
R2-Length-M: | 579 |
R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Unalakleet Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) north of the central business district of Unalakleet, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Unalakleet Airport covers an area of 715acres at an elevation of 27 feet (8 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt surfaced runways: 15/33 measuring 5,900 x 150 ft (1,798 x 46 m) and 9/27 measuring 1,900 x 75 ft (579 x 23 m).
Northern Air Cargo flies the largest airplanes to this location, with Boeing 737 service.
A Boeing 737-2x6X, operating as MarkAir flight 3087 from Anchorage, crashed 7.5 miles short of runway 14 on June 2, 1990, injuring four, one of them (a flight attendant) seriously. There were no passengers in the aircraft, which was destroyed. No one was killed in the incident.[2]