King Salmon Airport
King Salmon Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located just southeast of King Salmon, in the Bristol Bay Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It was formerly the Naknek Air Force Base, named for its location near the Naknek River.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 42,310 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 40,637 enplanements in 2009, and 41,514 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.King Salmon Airport covers an area of 5,277 acres at an elevation of 73 feet above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 12/30 measuring 8,901 by 150 feet and 18/36 measuring 4,017 by 100 feet.
For the 12-month period ending August 12, 2011, the airport had 51,300 aircraft operations, an average of 140 per day: 66% general aviation, 32% air taxi, 2% scheduled commercial, and 1% military. At that time there were 42 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, and 7% helicopter.Passenger
Accidents and incidents
On June 30, 1985, Douglas C-47B N168Z of Northern Peninsula Fisheries was substantially damaged at King Salmon when both engines failed on approach while the aircraft was on an executive flight from Homer Airport, Alaska. The cause of the accident was fuel exhaustion. A fuel filler cap was discovered to be missing after the accident.
