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Bootleggers Cove Airport

2AK4 · Homer, Alaska · Kenai-Cook Inlet County · map

Bootleggers Cove Airport is a private airport, 11 miles northwest of Homer, Alaska, 45 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 1,200 feet of gravel.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes
FAA 2AK4
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
45 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
On the chart
Seward sectional
Magnetic variation
23E
In the FAA's files since
November 1992

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1230N500 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
12/301,200 × 70 ftGravel, good
  • Runway 30: right-hand traffic pattern, hill 100 ft high 1,900 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Homer from the FAA register

199 aircraft are registered to owners in Homer, Alaska: 150 piston singles, 27 helicopters, 17 turboprops, 3 piston twins, 1 drone. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Maritime Helicopters INC 16Destination Alaska Air Service LLC 8Ak Air Leasing LLC 5Smokey Bay Air INC 4Emerald Air Service INC 4Blade Leasing LLC 3Alaska Ultimate Safaris LLC 3Venture Alaska LLC 2K Bay Air LLC 2Alaska Bear Safaris LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alaska.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

  • Runway 12, light on shore breeze creates 4 to 5 knot tail wind most summer days.

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 5, 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.