Airports · Alaska · seaplane base · FAA file effective October 29, 2026

Hawk Inlet Seaplane Base

HWI · Hawk Inlet, Alaska · Skagway-Yakutat County · map

Hawk Inlet Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base owned by Hecla Greens Creek Mining Company in Hawk Inlet, Alaska, 0 feet above sea level. It has 3 water landing areas.

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 HWI
Kind: Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Hecla Greens Creek Mining Company
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
In the FAA's files since: August 1954

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 3

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface
01/19	6,500 × 150 ft	Water
14/32	4,500 × 150 ft	Water
06/24	2,400 × 150 ft	Water

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel: none reported
Repairs: none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Juneau International (15 nm north), Gustavus Airport (35 nm northwest).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Juneau International (15 nm north).

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

Mtns east and west.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Hawk Inlet from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Hawk Inlet, 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.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Funter Bay Seaplane Base FNR · 9 nm northwest Juneau International JNU · 15 nm north Hoonah Airport HNH · 21 nm west Hoonah Seaplane Base OOH · 22 nm west Taku Harbor Seaplane Base A43 · 24 nm east Tenakee Seaplane Base TKE · 26 nm southwest Excursion Inlet Seaplane Base EXI · 28 nm northwest Barlett Regional Hospital Heliport AA44 · 15 nm northeast · private

Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register

Record

Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,930 since 1982 · 824 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered

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Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.