Nuiqsut Airport is a 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 Nuiqsut

Nuiqsut, Alaska

Nuiqsut is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 433.-Geography:Nuiqsut is located at ....

, a city in the North Slope Borough

North Slope Borough, Alaska

-National protected areas:* Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge ** Cape Lisburne** Cape Thompson* Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ** Mollie Beattie Wilderness * Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve...

 of the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Alaska

Alaska

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. It is owned by North Slope Borough.

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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, this airport is assigned AQT by the FAA and NUI by the IATA. The airport's ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

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 identifier is PAQT.

Facilities and aircraft

Nuiqsut Airport has one runway

Runway

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 designated 4/22 with a gravel

Gravel

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 surface measuring 4,343 by 90 feet (1,324 x 27 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,800 aircraft operations, an average of 150 per month: 83% air taxi

Air taxi

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, 11% military

Military aviation

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 and 6% general aviation

General aviation

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.

Airlines and non-stop destinations

Top Destinations

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

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	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...	1,000	Frontier Flying, Hageland
2	Deadhorse, AK Deadhorse Airport Deadhorse Airport is a public airport located in Deadhorse on the North Slope of Alaska. It can be accessed from Fairbanks via the Elliott and Dalton highways. It is near Prudhoe Bay and is sometimes also called Prudhoe Airport....	1,000	Frontier Flying, Hageland

External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF
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