Akutan Seaplane Base

Akutan Seaplane Base
Akutan Seaplane Base
	IATA: none; ICAO: none; FAA LID: KQA;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Akutan
Serves	Akutan, Alaska
Location	Akutan Island
Elevation AMSL	0 ft / 0 m
Coordinates	54°08′02″N 165°46′42″W
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	KQA Location of airport in Alaska
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Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	102
Based aircraft	0
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Akutan Seaplane Base (IATA: was KQA^[2], FAA LID: KQA) is a public use seaplane base located in Akutan,^[1] a city on Akutan Island in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled seaplane service was subsidized by the Essential Air Service program until late 2012 when PenAir retired their Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft and a new land-based airport on neighboring Akun Island was built. The new airport is known as Akutan Airport.

Airport typePublic

OwnerCity of Akutan

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As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,346 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,^[3] 1,200 enplanements in 2009, and 1,246 in 2010.^[4] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).^[5]

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