- Nuiqsut Airport
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Nuiqsut Airport IATA: NUI – ICAO: PAQT – FAA LID: AQT Summary Airport type Public Owner North Slope Borough Serves Nuiqsut, Alaska Elevation AMSL 38 ft / 12 m Coordinates 70°12′36″N 151°00′20″W / 70.21°N 151.00556°W Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 4/22 4,343 1,324 Gravel Statistics (2005) Aircraft operations 1,800 Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] Nuiqsut Airport (IATA: NUI, ICAO: PAQT, FAA LID: AQT) is a public use airport located in Nuiqsut,[1] a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by North Slope Borough.[1]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AQT by the FAA[1] and NUI by the IATA.[2] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAQT.[3]
Contents
Facilities and aircraft
Nuiqsut Airport has one runway designated 4/22 with a gravel surface measuring 4,343 by 90 feet (1,324 x 27 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,800 aircraft operations, an average of 150 per month: 83% air taxi, 11% military and 6% general aviation.[1]
Airlines and non-stop destinations
Airlines Destinations Frontier Flying Service Barrow, Deadhorse [4] Hageland Aviation Services Barrow, Deadhorse [5] ERA Alaska Barter Island Top Destinations
Busiest domestic routes out of NUI
(June 2010 - May 2011) [6]Rank City Passengers Carriers 1 
Barrow, AK1,000 Frontier Flying, Hageland 2 Deadhorse, AK1,000 Frontier Flying, Hageland References
- ^ a b c d e FAA Airport Master Record for AQT (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
- ^ "NUI / PAQT - Nuiqsut, Alaska". Great Circle Mapper. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/NUI. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/LID/L_G2.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "2007 Timetable" (PDF). Frontier Flying Service. http://www.frontierflying.com/timetable-ffs.pdf. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ "2007 Scheduled Flights" (PDF). Hageland Aviation Services. http://www.hageland.com/07sched.pdf. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ http://www.transtats.bts.gov/airports.asp?pn=1&Airport=NUI&Airport_Name=Nuiqsut,%20AK:%20Nuiqsut%20Airport&carrier=FACTS
External links
- FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
- FAA Terminal Procedures for AQT, effective 20 October 2011
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for PAQT
- ASN accident history for NUI
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker for PAQT
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PAQT
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for AQT
Categories:- Airports in North Slope Borough, Alaska
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