Deadhorse Airport is a public 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 Deadhorse

Deadhorse, Alaska

Deadhorse is an unincorporated community in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States, along the North Slope near the Arctic Ocean. The town consists mainly of facilities for the workers and companies that operate at the nearby Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Deadhorse is accessible via the Dalton Highway...

 on the North Slope of 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...

. It can be accessed from Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks is a home rule city in and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage...

 via the Elliott

Elliott Highway

The Elliott Highway is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska that extends 152 miles from Fox, about 10 miles north of Fairbanks, to Manley Hot Springs...

 and Dalton

Dalton Highway

The James W. Dalton Highway, usually Dalton Highway is a 414-mile road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields...

 highways. It is near Prudhoe Bay and is sometimes also called Prudhoe Airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Deadhorse Airport covers 6506 acres (2,633 ha) and has one 6,500 x 150 ft. (1,981 x 46 m) paved runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 (4/22).

For the 12-month period ending August 22, 2008, the airport had 19,710 aircraft operations, averaging of 54 per day: 54% general aviation

General aviation

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, 28% air taxi

Air taxi

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, 18% scheduled commercial and 1% military.

Airlines and non-stop destinations

• Bristow Helicopters
  Bristow Helicopters
  Bristow Helicopters is a British helicopter airline originally based at Aberdeen Airport, Scotland, part of the Bristow Group based in Houston, Texas, USA....
  
   provides helicopter transportation services to the Alaska oil and gas and related support industries.

Top Destinations

Busiest domestic routes out of SCC
(June 2010 - May 2011)

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Anchorage, AK Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport -Top destinations:-Scheduled cargo airlines:-Top destinations:-Scheduled cargo airlines:-Top destinations:-Scheduled cargo airlines:-Inter-terminal:...	30,000	Alaska, Era Alaska
2	Fairbanks, AK Fairbanks International Airport Fairbanks International Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three miles southwest of the central business district of Fairbanks, a city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska....	3,000	Alaska, Era Alaska
3	Barrow, AK Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport is a public airport located in Barrow, a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by the state. Situated on the Chukchi Sea at a latitude of 71.29°N, the airport is the farthest north of any in US territory...	2,000	Alaska, Hageland
3	Nuiqsut, AK Nuiqsut Airport Nuiqsut Airport is a public use airport located in Nuiqsut, a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by North Slope Borough....	1,000	Hageland
5	Barter Island, AK	1,000	Frontier Flying

External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF
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