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Five Mile Airport
Five Mile Camp AirportIATA: FMC – ICAO: PAFV – FAA LID: FVM Summary Airport type Private Owner BLM - Pipeline Office Operator Alyeska Pipeline Co. Location Five Mile, Alaska Elevation AMSL 510 ft / 155 m Coordinates 65°55′37″N 149°50′24″W / 65.92694°N 149.84°W Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 11/29 2,700 823 Gravel Statistics (1994) Aircraft operations 200 Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] Five Mile Airport (IATA: FMC, ICAO: PAFV, FAA LID: FVM) is a private-use airport located in Five Mile (or Five Mile Camp) in the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - Pipeline Office and managed by the Alyeska Pipeline Company.[1] It is also known as Five Mile Camp Airport.[2]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned FVM by the FAA[1] and FMC by the IATA.[3] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAFV.[4]
Facilities and aircraft
Five Mile Airport has one runway designated 11/29 with a gravel surface measuring 2,700 by 75 feet (823 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending August 30, 1994, the airport had 200 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 16 per month.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Master Record for FVM (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
- ^ Wind Resource Assessment Data. Alaska Energy Authority.
- ^ Great Circle Mapper: FMC / PAFV - Five Mile, Alaska
- ^ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/LID/L_G2.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
External links
- Aerial view of Five Mile Camp, with landing strip at left, during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction, five miles north of Yukon River in Interior Alaska. Dec. 19, 1974.
- Five Mile Camp, Alaska (ICAO: PAFV)PDF
- FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
- Resources for this airport:
- Airport information for PAFV at AirNav
- Accident history for FMC at Aviation Safety Network
- Aeronautical chart for FVM at SkyVector
Categories:- Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
- Alaska airport stubs
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