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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | State of Alaska DOT&PF – Southeastern Region | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Ketchikan, Alaska | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 92 ft / 28 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°21′15″N 131°42′40″W / 55.35417°N 131.71111°W | ||||||||||||||
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Ketchikan International Airport (IATA: KTN, ICAO: PAKT, FAA LID: KTN) is a state-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Ketchikan, a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in Alaska, that has no direct road access to the outside world or to the airport.[2] The airport is located on Gravina Island, just west of Ketchikan on the other side of the Tongass Narrows. Passengers must take a seven-minute[3] ferry ride across the water to get to the airport from the town.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 148,645 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2023,[4] which was a 3.38% increase from 2022. 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 103,136 enplanements in 2012.[5]
- ^ https://aspm.faa.gov/tfms/sys/Airport.asp
- ^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for KTN PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. effective September 7, 2023.
- ^ Taxpayers for Common Sense (August 22, 2005). "$315 Million Bridge to Nowhere". Archived from the original (PDF) on November 2, 2006. Retrieved November 6, 2006.
- ^ https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2024-10/cy23-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf
- ^ "Appendix A: List of NPIAS Airports with 5-Year Forecast Activity and Development Estimate" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report. Federal Aviation Administration. Archived from the original (PDF, 7.89 MB) on February 22, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2016.