Circle City Airport

Circle City Airport (IATA: IRC, ICAO: PACR, FAA LID: CRC) is a state-owned public-use airport located in Circle^[1] (also known as Circle City), in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is also known as Circle City (New) Airport.^[1] Scheduled commercial airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Airport typePublic

OwnerState of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region

ServesCircle, Alaska

ElevationAMSL613 ft / 187 m

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Circle City Airport
IATA: IRC ICAO: PACR FAA LID: CRC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region
Serves	Circle, Alaska
Elevation AMSL	613 ft / 187 m
Coordinates	65°49′40″N 144°04′34″W
Map
CRC Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 15/33 2,979 908 Gravel/dirt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations 1,110 Based aircraft 0 Passengers 448 Freight 46,000 lbs
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

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As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 303 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,^[2] 377 enplanements in 2009, and 355 in 2010.^[3] 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).^[4]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CRC by the FAA^[1] and IRC by the IATA^[5] (which assigned CRC to the Santa Ana Airport in Cartago, Colombia^[6]). The airport's ICAO identifier is PACR.^[7]