Shishmaref Airport

Shishmaref Airport
IATA: SHH – ICAO: PASH – FAA LID: SHH
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region
Serves		Shishmaref, Alaska
Elevation AMSL		12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates		66°14′58″N 166°05′22″W / 66.24944°N 166.08944°W / 66.24944; -166.08944
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
5/23	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Shishmaref Airport (IATA: SHH, ICAO: PASH, FAA LID: SHH) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of Shishmaref, a village in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 5/23 and measuring 5,000 x 70 ft. (1,524 x 21 m).^[1] Shishmaref is located on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait and five miles from the mainland.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 5,040 commercial passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2006 and 4,732 enplanements in 2007.^[2] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS), it is classified as commercial service - non-primary because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year.^[3]

Airlines

• Bering Air
• Frontier Flying Service
• Hageland Aviation Services

References

1. ^ ^{a b} FAA Airport Master Record for SHH (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-05-07.
2. ^ FAA Passenger Boarding Data: 2006, 2007
3. ^ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2009-2013

External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
• FAA Terminal Procedures for SHH, effective 20 October 2011
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for PASH
  • ASN accident history for SHH
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker for PASH
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PASH
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for SHH