Akutan Seaplane Base
KQA · Akutan, Alaska · Aleutians East County · map
Akutan Seaplane Base is a public-use seaplane base owned by the City of Akutan in Akutan, Alaska, 0 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area. The FAA counts about 200 takeoffs and landings a year. About 8 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
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What is the airport code for Akutan Seaplane Base?
Its FAA code is KQA.
Where is Akutan Seaplane Base?
It is in Akutan, Alaska, 0 feet above sea level.
Does Akutan Seaplane Base have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
Where can you fly nonstop from Akutan Seaplane Base?
Airline flights go to 4 airports, the busiest of them Akutan, Akutan, Unalaska, Tuntutuliak. Every route
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Akutan Seaplane Base…
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA KQA
- Kind
- Seaplane base · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Akutan
- 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
- Dutch Harbor sectional
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| E/W | 10,000 × 1,000 ft | Water, excellent |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this seaplane base.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Unalaska 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
- Aleutians East borough
- Operations area Akutan harbor; drift wood and debris.
- Daily helicopter shuttle from 7AK airport.
- Spb ramp unusable for seaplane operations all tides.
- Large cobble rock beach otr side of harbor unsat for float aircraft; firm and acptbl for large wheeled amphibian aircraft.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 934 departures from KQA in those twelve months, carrying 977 passengers in 5,604 seats (17% filled), to 4 destinations on 1 airline.
| Where to | Flights | Passengers | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akutan → Akutan KQA–7AK | 886 | 955 | Maritime Helicopters, Inc. |
| Akutan → Akutan KQA–KQA | 37 | 7 | Maritime Helicopters, Inc. |
| Akutan → Unalaska KQA–DUT | 10 | 12 | Maritime Helicopters, Inc. |
| Akutan → Tuntutuliak KQA–A61 | 1 | 3 | Maritime Helicopters, Inc. |
All 4 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this seaplane base.
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 200, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 200 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Akutan from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Akutan, 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
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Alaska 5,932 since 1982 · 823 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 1 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alaska 392 landing places
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- Akutan (7AK) 886 flights in twelve months · Maritime Helicopters, Inc.
- Akutan (KQA) 37 flights in twelve months · Maritime Helicopters, Inc.
- Unalaska (DUT) 10 flights in twelve months · Maritime Helicopters, Inc.
- Tuntutuliak (A61) 1 flights in twelve months · Maritime Helicopters, Inc.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/KQA.json.
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 November 12, 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.