- Circle City Airport
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Circle City Airport IATA: IRC – ICAO: PACR – FAA LID: CRC Summary Airport type Public Owner Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region Serves Circle, Alaska Elevation AMSL 613 ft / 187 m Coordinates 65°49′40″N 144°04′34″W / 65.82778°N 144.07611°W Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 15/33 2,979 908 Gravel Statistics (2005) Aircraft operations 1,110 Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] Circle City Airport (IATA: IRC, ICAO: PACR, FAA LID: CRC) is a state-owned public-use airport located in Circle[1] (also known as Circle City), in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is also known as Circle City (New) Airport.[1] Scheduled commercial airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CRC by the FAA[1] and IRC by the IATA[2] (which assigned CRC to the Santa Ana Airport in Cartago, Colombia[3]). The airport's ICAO identifier is PACR.[4]
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Facilities and aircraft
Circle City Airport covers an area of 324 acres (131 ha) at an elevation of 613 feet (187 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33 with a gravel surface measuring 2,979 by 60 feet (908 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,110 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per month: 63% general aviation and 36% air taxi and 1% military.[1]
Airline and destination
- Warbelow's Air Ventures (Fairbanks)
References
- ^ a b c d e FAA Airport Master Record for CRC (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: IRC / PACR - Circle, Alaska (Circle City Airport)
- ^ Aviation Safety Network: CRC / SKGO - Cartago-Santa Ana Airport, Colombia
- ^ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/LID/L_G2.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
External links
- Alaska FAA airport diagram (GIF)
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for PACR
- ASN accident history for IRC
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker for PACR
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PACR
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for CRC
Categories:- Essential Air Service
- Airports in the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
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