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

References

1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for KQA PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective January 5, 2017.
2. "IATA Airport Code Search (KQA: Akutan)". International Air Transport Association. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
3. "Enplanements for CY 2008" (PDF, 1.0 MB). CY 2008 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. December 18, 2009.
4. "Enplanements for CY 2010" (PDF, 189 KB). CY 2010 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2011.
5. "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on 2012-09-27.
6. Maritime Schedule Retrieved Sep 11, 2022.
7. "Akutan, AK: Akutan Airport (KQA)". Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation. December 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2017.

Other sources

• Essential Air Service documents (Docket DOT-OST-2000-7068) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
  • Order 2005-5-12 (May 19, 2005): re-selecting Peninsula Airways (PenAir) to provide essential air service at Akutan, Alaska, at an annual subsidy rate of $350,381, for the two-year period May 1, 2005, through April 30, 2007.
  • Order 2007-3-3 (March 9, 2007): re-selecting Peninsula Airways (PenAir) to provide subsidized essential air service at Akutan, Alaska, for the period from May 1, 2007, through April 30, 2009, at an annual subsidy rate of $556,155.
  • Order 2009-5-4 (May 5, 2009): selecting Peninsula Airways (PenAir) to provide essential air service at Akutan for an annual subsidy rate of $654,964, through April 30, 2011.
  • Order 2011-3-31 (March 25, 2011): re-selecting Peninsula Airways, Inc., (PenAir) to provide essential air service (EAS) at Akutan, Alaska, at annual subsidy rate of $710,157, from May 1, 2011, through April 30, 2013.
  • Notice of Termination of Service (August 6, 2012): Peninsula Airways, Inc. ("PenAir") hereby gives notice of its intent to discontinue all of its service to Akutan, Alaska, as soon as replacement service begins. PenAir respectfully requests that the Department promptly issue a request for proposals to enable PenAir to terminate service on September 1, 2012, or as soon thereafter as possible.

External links

• Topographic map from USGS The National Map
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for KQA
  • AirNav airport information for KQA
  • ASN accident history for KQA
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KQA