Manokotak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport

Airport

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 located one mile (2 km) north of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Manokotak

Manokotak, Alaska

Manokotak is a city in Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 399.-Geography:Manokotak is located at ....

, a city in the Dillingham Census Area

Dillingham Census Area, Alaska

Dillingham Census Area is a census area located in the state of Alaska, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 4,922. 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

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 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, Manokotak Airport is assigned MBA by the FAA and KMO by the IATA (which assigned MBA to Moi International Airport

Moi International Airport

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 in Mombasa

Mombasa

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, Kenya

Kenya

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Facilities and aircraft

Manokotak Airport has one runway

Runway

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 designated 1/19 with a 2,720 x 60 ft (829 x 18 m) gravel

Gravel

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 surface. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2001, the airport had 1,200 aircraft operations: 83% air taxi

Air taxi

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 and 17% general aviation

General aviation

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External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF
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