Saginaw Seaplane Base
Encyclopedia
Saginaw Seaplane Base is a privately-owned public-use seaplane
base located at Saginaw Bay, Alaska
. As per Federal Aviation Administration
records, the airport had 418 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year
2010, an increase of 27% from the 330 enplanements in 2009.
Seaplane
A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing on water. Seaplanes that can also take off and land on airfields are a subclass called amphibian aircraft...
base located at Saginaw Bay, Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
. As per Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S...
records, the airport had 418 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year
Calendar year
Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day. By convention, a calendar year consists of a natural number of days. To reconcile the calendar year with an astronomical cycle , certain years...
2010, an increase of 27% from the 330 enplanements in 2009.
Facilities
Saginaw Seaplane Base has one seaplane landing area designated NW/SE measuring 10,000 by 1,000 feet (3,048 x 305 m).External links
- FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIFGIFThe Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability....
) - Topographic map from USGS The National Map
