LAKE HOOD SEAPLANE BASE

'Lake Hood Seaplane Base' is an aircraft and seaplane base located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. A gravel runway located adjacent to the seaplane base is known as Lake Hood Airstrip
Operating continuously and open to the public, Lake Hood is the world's busiest seaplane base, handling an average of 190 flights per day. It is located on Lakes Hood and Spenard, next to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, three miles from downtown Anchorage.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Lake Hood Seaplane Base is assigned 'LHD' by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[1] The airport's ICAO identifier is 'PALH'^[2].

Contents

Facilities and aircraft

References

External links

Facilities and aircraft

Lake Hood Seaplane Base has three seaplane landing areas:

★ Runway E/W: 4,540 x 188 ft. (1,384 x 57 m), Surface: Water

★ Runway N/S: 1,930 x 200 ft. (588 x 61 m), Surface: Water

★ Runway NW/SE: 1,370 x 150 ft. (418 x 46 m), Surface: Water
Lake Hood Airstrip has one runway:^[3]

★ Runway 13/31: 2,200 x 75 ft. (671 x 23 m), Surface: Gravel
For 12-month period ending August 1, 2005, the seaplane base had 69,400 aircraft operations, an average of 190 per day: 88% general aviation, 12% air taxi and <1% military. There are 781 aircraft based at this seaplane base: 97% single engine and 3% multi-engine.

References

1. Great Circle Mapper: PALH - Anchorage, Alaska (Lake Hood Seaplane Base)
2. FAA: Alaska Location Identifiers
3. , effective 2007-03-15

External links

★ Alaska Airmen's Web Cam on Lake Hood

★ FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)

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