Gakona Landing Strip - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Gakona Landing Strip is an abandoned airfield located near Gakona, Alaska

Gakona, Alaska

Gakona is a census-designated place in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the CDP was 215.-Geography and climate:...

History

The strip was used by the USAAF as an emergency landing field for aircraft assigned to Alaska during World War II. It was closed after the war.

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