Akutan Seaplane Base

Akutan Seaplane Base (IATA: was KQA^[2], FAA LID: KQA) is a public use seaplane base located in Akutan,^[1] a city on Akutan Island in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled seaplane service was subsidized by the Essential Air Service program until late 2012 when PenAir retired their Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft and a new land-based airport on neighboring Akun Island was built. The new airport is known as Akutan Airport.

Akutan Seaplane Base
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: KQA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Akutan
Serves	Akutan, Alaska
Location	Akutan Island
Elevation AMSL	0 ft / 0 m
Coordinates	54°08′02″N 165°46′42″W
Map
KQA Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m E/W 10,000 3,048 Water
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations 102 Based aircraft 0
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

PenAir Grumman Goose at Akutan

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,346 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,^[3] 1,200 enplanements in 2009, and 1,246 in 2010.^[4] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).^[5]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Maritime Helicopters	Akutan-Akun[6]

Carrier shares: January – December 2015^[7]

Carrier	Passengers (arriving and departing)
PenAir	25(100%)

Top domestic destinations: Jan. – Dec. 2015^[7]

Rank	Destination	Airport	Passengers
1	Unalaska, AK	Unalaska Airport (DUT)	25

See also

• Akutan Airport (FAA: 7AK) located at 54°08′41″N 165°36′15″W
• List of airports in Alaska