Healy Lake Airport

Healy River Airport
IATA: HKB – ICAO: none
Summary
Serves	Healy Lake, Alaska
Coordinates	63°59′45″N 144°41′33″W / 63.99583°N 144.69250°WCoordinates: 63°59′45″N 144°41′33″W / 63.99583°N 144.69250°W
Map
HKB Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 2,700 823
[1]

Healy Lake Airport (IATA: HKB)^[2] is an airport serving Healy Lake, a community in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline passenger service at this airport is subsidized by the United States Department of Transportation via the Essential Air Service program.

Airline and destinations

The following airline offers scheduled passenger service at this airport:

Airlines	Destinations
40-Mile Air	Fairbanks, Tok [3]

Statistics

Carrier shares: January – December 2013^[4]

Carrier	Passengers (arriving and departing)
40-Mile Air	60(100%)

Top domestic destinations: Jan. – Dec. 2013^[4]

Rank	City	Airport name & IATA code	Passengers
			2013	2012
1	Tok, AK	Tok Airport (TKJ)	10	10
2	Fairbanks, Alaska	Fairbanks International (FAI)	10	10

See also

• Healy River Airport in Healy, Alaska (Denali Borough) at coordinates 63°52′03″N 148°58′08″W / 63.86750°N 148.96889°W

References

1. "Healy Lake Airport (coordinates and approximate runway length)". Wikimapia. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
2. "Healy Lake Airport (IATA: HKB)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
3. "Scheduled destinations". 40-Mile Air. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
4. "Healy, AK: Healy River (HKB)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation. December 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2014.

Other sources

• Essential Air Service documents (Docket DOT-OST-1998-3546) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
  • Order 2004-5-13 (May 14, 2004): tentatively re-selects 40-Mile Air, Ltd., to provide essential air service at Healy Lake, Alaska, for a two-year period from June 1, 2004 through May 31, 2006, at an annual subsidy of $51,781.
  • Order 2006-4-11 (April 7, 2006): re-selecting 40-Mile Air, Ltd., to provide subsidized essential air service at Healy Lake, Alaska, at an annual subsidy rate of $71,105 for the period of June 1, 2006, through May 31, 2008.
  • Order 2008-4-41 (April 29, 2008): selected 40-Mile Air, Inc., to continue providing subsidized EAS at Chisana and Healy Lake for the two-year period through May 31, 2010, and established an annual subsidy rate of $77,683 for two nonstop round trips per week between Healy Lake and Fairbanks with 5-seat Cessna 206 or 207 aircraft.
  • Order 2010-4-15 (April 23, 2010): selected 40-Mile Air, Inc., to continue providing EAS at Chisana and Healy Lake for the two-year period through May 31, 2012, and established an annual subsidy rate of $98,915 for two nonstop round trips per week between Healy Lake and Fairbanks with 5-seat Cessna 206 or 207 aircraft.
  • Order 2012-6-18 (June 22, 2012): re-selecting 40-Mile Air, Inc., to continue providing Essential Air Service (EAS) at Chisana and Healy Lake, Alaska, and establishing annual subsidy rates of $81,040 and $104,703, respectively, for a new two-year period, through May 31, 2014. Two nonstop round trips between Healy Lake and Fairbanks with 5-seat Cessna 206 or 207 aircraft. Route FAI-HKB-FAI.

External links

• 40-Mile Air
• Aerial photo as of August 1996 from USGS The National Map