Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport


Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial, is a public airport located in Barrow, the largest city and borough seat of the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the state. Situated on the Chukchi Sea at a latitude of 71.29°N, the airport is the farthest north of any in US territory. The airport is named after American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post, both of whom died about away at Point Barrow in a 1935 airplane crash.
737-400 combi aircraft at Post/Rogers Memorial Airport, December 2007. Note that it is twilight. Even though the sun does not rise in December, it gets close enough to the horizon to provide illumination.

Facilities and aircraft

Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport has one asphalt paved runway measuring.
For the 12-month period ending 11 January 2011, the airport had 12,010 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 50% air taxi, 37% general aviation, 12% scheduled commercial and fewer than 1% military. At that time there were eight aircraft based at this airport: one jet, three helicopters, one multi-engine, and three single-engine.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.

Statistics

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