Emmonak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 located in Emmonak

Emmonak, Alaska

Emmonak is a city in Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 767.-Geography:Emmonak is located at ....

, a city in the Wade Hampton Census Area

Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska

Wade Hampton Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population was 7,028. It is part of the unorganized borough and therefore has no borough seat...

 of the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Alaska

Alaska

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.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.-ICAO...

 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, this airport is assigned ENM by the FAA and EMK by the IATA. The airport's ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

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 identifier is PAEM.

Facilities

Emmonak Airport has one runway

Runway

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 designated 16/34 with a gravel

Gravel

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 surface measuring 4,601 by 100 feet (1,402 x 30 m).

Airline and non-stop destinations

• Hageland Aviation Services
  Hageland Aviation Services
  Hageland Aviation Services was a regional airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. It serves nine destinations in Alaska and operates state wide charter services...
  
   (Alakanuk, Kotlik, St. Mary's)

Top Destinations

Busiest domestic routes out of EMK
(July 2010 - June 2011)

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Bethel, AK Bethel Airport Bethel Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Bethel, a city in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.- Facilities and aircraft :...	5,000	Hageland
2	Kotlik, AK Kotlik Airport Kotlik Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile west of the central business district of Kotlik, a city in the Wade Hampton Census Area of the U.S...	1,000	Aero Flight
3	Alakanuk, AK Alakanuk Airport Alakanuk Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile southwest of the central business district of Alakanuk, a city in the Wade Hampton Census Area of the U.S...	1,000	Aero Flight, Grant
4	St. Mary’s, AK St. Mary's Airport (Alaska) St. Mary's Airport is a public airport located four miles west of the central business district of St. Mary's, in the Wade Hampton Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. This airport is publicly owned by the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities - Northern...	1,000	Hageland
5	Nunam Iqua, AK Sheldon Point Airport Sheldon Point Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in Nunam Iqua , a city in the Wade Hampton Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska...	1,000	Hageland

External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF
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