Twin Hills Airport

Twin Hills Airport
IATA: TWA – ICAO: none – FAA LID: A63
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner State of Alaska DOT&PF - Central Region
Serves Twin Hills, Alaska
Elevation AMSL 82 ft / 25 m
Coordinates 59°04′28″N 160°16′30″W / 59.07444°N 160.27500°W / 59.07444; -160.27500
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
18/36 3,000 914 Gravel
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 1,900
Enplanements (2008) 395

Twin Hills Airport (IATA: TWA, FAA LID: A63) is a state-owned, public-use airport serving Twin Hills,[1] in the Dillingham Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline service to Dillingham Airport is provided by Peninsula Airways (PenAir).[3]

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, this airport had 395 commercial passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, a decrease of 23% from the 510 enplanements in 2007.[2] Twin Hills Airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2009–2013), which categorizes it as a general aviation facility.[4]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned A63 by the FAA and TWA by the IATA.[5]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
PenAir Dillingham [3]

Facilities and aircraft

Twin Hills Airport has one runway designated 18/36 with a gravel surface measuring 3,000 by 60 feet (914 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending February 28, 2009, the airport had 1,900 aircraft operations, an average of 158 per month: 87% air taxi and 13% general aviation.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Master Record for A63 (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 27 Aug 2009.
  2. 1 2 CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data (Preliminary). Federal Aviation Administration. Published 15 July 2009.
  3. 1 2 2009 Timetables. Peninsula Airways. Retrieved 6 Sep 2009.
  4. ↑ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2009-2013. Federal Aviation Administration. Published 1 Oct 2008.
  5. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: TWA - Twin Hills, Alaska. Retrieved 6 Sep 2009.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/19/2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.