Alpine airfield

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Alpine airfield
Alpine Airfield (Alaska)
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Characteristics
ICAO code PALP
IATA code without
Coordinates

70 ° 20 ′ 40 "  N , 150 ° 56 ′ 41"  W Coordinates: 70 ° 20 ′ 40 "  N , 150 ° 56 ′ 41"  W

Height above MSL 6 m (20  ft )
Basic data
operator ConocoPhillips
Start-and runway
03/21 1525 m × 31 m gravel



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The airfield Alpine (FAA airport code AK15 ; ICAO: PALP ) is a private airfield 14 km north of the nearest town of Nuiqsut the settlement and 96 kilometers west Deadhorse in the American state of Alaska is. It is operated by the ConocoPhillips oil company .

Infrastructure

The airfield has a gravel runway with the orientation 03/21, which is 1525 meters long and 31 meters wide. The non-directional radio beacon (NDB) Nuiqsut, 8 nautical miles away, is available for radio navigation .

Airlines and destinations

Status: August 2019

ConocoPhillips connects its own airfield with the Ugnu-Kuparuk airfield, which is also operated by it, and the public Deadhorse airport . The short connections (10 to 15 minutes flight time) are served with aircraft of the types CASA 212 and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter .

airline Destinations
ConocoPhillips Deadhorse (96 km)
ConocoPhillips Ugnu-Kuparuk (49 km)

Incidents

  • On 25 September 2001 during landing at the airfield Alpine the left wing broke a Douglas DC-6BF of Northern Air Cargo from (N867TA) . As a result, the machine turned to the left and slid off the runway. In the subsequent fire, the middle part of the machine burned out, causing irreparable damage and the aircraft had to be written off. All three inmates were able to save themselves and survived. The destroyed machine was one of the only two DC-6s converted to DC-6B-ST ("Swing tail").

Individual evidence

  1. a b Airport IQ: Alpine , accessed on August 13, 2019.
  2. AirNav: Alpine Airstrip (English), accessed on August 13, 2019.
  3. Flightaware: Alpine , accessed August 13, 2019.
  4. accident report DC-6 N867TA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 24 October 2018th