Yakutat Airport

Yakutat Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located 3 nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Yakutat, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska which has no road access to the outside world. Airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,028 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 12,158 enplanements in 2009, and 10,035 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport based on 10,100 enplanements in CY 2012.

History

Yakutat Airport origins date from 1940 when Yakutat Army Airfield was constructed as part of the United States Army's long-range defense program for Alaska.

Facilities and aircraft

Yakutat Airport has two runways: 2/20 is 6,475 by 150 feet with a concrete surface; 11/29 is 7,745 by 150 feet with an asphalt surface.
For the 12-month period ending May 3, 2010, the airport had 19,026 aircraft operations, an average of 52 per day: 68% general aviation, 26% air taxi, 4% scheduled commercial, and 2% military. At that time there were eight aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine.

Incidents

A Boeing 737-700, flying as Alaska Airlines Flight 66 from Cordova, hit a bear and narrowly missed another as it landed on November 15, 2020. The struck bear was killed, while the other bear as well as all onboard the aircraft were uninjured. The plane suffered damage to its left engine cowling.