WILEY POST-WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL AIRPORT

'Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport' ^[1] 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 the entire United States.
The airport is named after American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post, both of whom died in a plane crash due to inclement weather nearby.

Contents

Facilities and aircraft

Airlines and non-stop destinations

Cargo airlines

References

External links

Facilities and aircraft

Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport has one asphalt paved runway (6/24) measuring 6,500 x 150 ft. (1,981 x 46 m).
For the 12-month period ending January 1, 2006, the airport had 11,750 aircraft operations, an average of 32 per day: 51% air taxi, 38% general aviation, 10% scheduled commercial and <1% military.

Airlines and non-stop destinations

★ Alaska Airlines (Anchorage, Fairbanks)

★ Frontier Flying Service (Atqasuk, Nuiqsut, Point Lay, Wainwright)^[2]

★ Hageland Aviation Services (Atqasuk, Nuiqsut, Wainwright)^[3]

Cargo airlines

★ Northern Air Cargo

References

1. Great Circle Mapper: BRW - Barrow, Alaska (Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport)
2. Frontier Flying Service: 2007 Timetable (PDF). Retrieved 29-Aug-2007.
3. Hageland Aviation Services: Scheduled Flights (PDF). Retrieved 29-Aug-2007.

External links

★ FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)

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★ National Weather Service Barrow, Alaska

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