Cordova Municipal Airport

Cordova Municipal Airport
Cordova Municipal Airport
	IATA: CKU; ICAO: none; FAA LID: CKU;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region
Serves	Cordova, Alaska
Built	1941
Elevation AMSL	12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	60°32′38″N 145°43′36″W / 60.54389°N 145.72667°W
Map
	CKU Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	8,800
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Cordova Municipal Airport (IATA: CKU, FAA LID: CKU) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.8 km) east of the central business district of Cordova, a city in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.^[1] It is located on Eyak Lake on which it also has a landing area for seaplanes.

Cordova is also served by the Merle K. (Mudhole) Smith Airport which offers scheduled commercial flights including Alaska Airlines jet service.

Formerly, the airport operated as Cordova Army Airfield.

Facilities and aircraft

Cordova Municipal Airport has one runway (6/24) with a 1,800 by 60 ft (549 x 18 m) gravel surface. It also has one seaplane landing area (9W/27W) measuring 8,000 by 3,000 ft (2,438 x 914 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 8,800 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day: 60% general aviation and 40% air taxi.^[1]