Buckland Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region | ||||||||||
| Serves | Buckland, Alaska | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 31 ft / 9 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 65°58′54″N 161°08′57″W / 65.98167°N 161.14917°W | ||||||||||
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Buckland Airport (IATA: BKC, ICAO: PABL, FAA LID: BVK, formerly 7K5) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Buckland,[1] a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is situated on the Buckland River.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BVK by the FAA[1] and BKC by the IATA[2] (which assigned BVK to Huacaraje, Bolivia[3]). The airport's ICAO identifier is PABL.[4]
Facilities and aircraft
Buckland Airport covers an area of 184 acres (74 ha) at an elevation of 31 feet (9 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with a gravel surface measuring 3,200 by 75 feet (975 x 23 m).[1]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Bering Air | Deering, Kotzebue[5] |
Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.
Statistics
| Carrier | Passengers (arriving and departing) |
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| Bering Air | |
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| Rank | City | Airport | Passengers |
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| 1 |  Kotzebue, AK
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Kotzebue | 4,250 |
| 2 | Deering, AK
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Deering Airport | 170 |
| 3 | Shishmaref, AK
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Shishmaref Airport | 10 |
| 4 | Nome, AK
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Nome Airport | 10 |
References
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for BVK PDF, effective January 5, 2017.
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: BKC / PABL - Buckland, Alaska
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: BVK / SLHJ - Huacaraje, Bolivia
- ^ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Archived from the original on 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Bering Air Schedule" (PDF). Bering Air. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
- ^ a b "Buckland, AK: Buckland (BKC)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation. December 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
External links
- FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
- FAA Terminal Procedures for BVK, effective November 28, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for BVK
- AirNav airport information for PABL
- ASN accident history for BKC
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PABL
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for BVK
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