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Ketchikan International Airport is a state-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Ketchikan, a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska which has no direct road access to the outside world nor to the airport.〔 The airport is located on Gravina Island, just west of Ketchikan on the other side of the Tongass Narrows. Passengers must take a seven-minute〔 〕 ferry ride across the water to get to the airport from the town. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 108,837 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,〔 〕 96,996 enplanements in 2009, and 100,138 in 2010.〔 〕 It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).〔 〕 == History == Around the World War II era until the early 1970s, longer range land plane air service to Ketchikan including flights to Seattle were operated via an old military airfield located approximately 20 air miles to the south on Annette Island. Aircraft operated into the Annette Island Airport (ANN) for flights in the local southeast Alaska area included the Grumman Goose and Catalina PBY with these amphibian aircraft being utilized to link the airport with the Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base. Longer range flights were operated with Douglas DC-4 prop aircraft flown by Pan American World Airways during the 1940s followed by Douglas DC-6 and Boeing 377 Stratocruiser aircraft. Other service into Annette Island included Lockheed Constellation propliners flown by Pacific Northern Airlines during the 1950s〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Sept. 2, 1958 Pacific Northern Airlines system timetable〕 and Boeing 707 jetliners flown by Pan Am in the early 1960s.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Nov. 1, 1947 & Aug. 1, 1963 Pan American World Airways system timetables〕 In addition, Annette Island was served with Boeing 720 jetliners operated by Pacific Northern and successor Western Airlines later during the 1960s.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Oct. 1, 1965; Aug. 1, 1967 Pacific Northern Airlines system timetables & Aug. 1, 1968 Western Airlines system timetable〕 Alaska Airlines also operated into Annette Island Airport prior to moving its jet service to Ketchikan International Airport with the opening of this new airfield.〔"Alaska Airlines" by Cliff & Nancy Hollenbeck, http://www.hollenbeckproductions.com〕 The current airport was opened on August 4, 1973 and was dedicated on the following day. The airport opening was the culmination of an effort by local residents, a 1965 study by the Alaska State Division of Aviation, another study in 1967 choosing the current site on Gravina Island, and land clearing in 1969.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ketchikan International Airport History )〕 One of the first airlines to serve the new airport was Alaska Airlines which inaugurated the first jet service from Seattle to Ketchikan International Airport on August 4, 1973 with a Boeing 720 jetliner.〔"Alaska Airlines" by Cliff & Nancy Hollenbeck, page 143〕 Alaska Air primarily operated Boeing 727-100, 727-200 and 737-200 jetliners (including 737 passenger/cargo Combi aircraft) into the airport before switching to later model Boeing 737 jets.〔http://www.departedflights.com, Feb. 1, 1975 Alaska Airlines system timetable〕 Alaska Airlines has flown from the airport for over 40 years and also operated Grumman Goose and Super Catalina amphibian aircraft into the seaplane base serving Ketchikan prior to the opening of the airfield in 1973.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, June 1, 1969 & Sept. 14, 1970 Alaska Airlines system timetables〕 Other airlines that operated jet service into the airport in the past included Wien Air Alaska and MarkAir with both air carriers flying Boeing 737 jets as well as Western Airlines operating Boeing 727-200 jetliners.〔http://www.departedflights.com, July 1, 1983 Official Airline Guide (OAG), Seattle-Ketchikan schedules〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ketchikan International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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