Chatham Seaplane Base
05AA · Chatham, Alaska · Sitka County · map
Chatham Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base owned by Chatham Cannery LTD in Chatham, Alaska, 0 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 05AA
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Chatham Cannery LTD
- Elevation
- 0 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Juneau sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 27E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1960
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| NW/SE | 10,000 × 1,000 ft | Water |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport (31 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport (31 nm southwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Alaska · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- No seaplane float or services available.
- Private property, absolutely no public access
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Chatham from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Chatham, AK as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base
Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this seaplane base.
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,930 since 1982 · 826 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 4 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,141 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/05AA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 26, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.