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Klawock Seaplane Base

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4222788 ↗
Source-derived summary

Klawock Seaplane Base (ICAO: PAQC, FAA LID: AQC) is a public use seaplane base owned by and located in Klawock, a city in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

Facilities

Klawock Seaplane Base has one runway designated NW/SE with a water surface measuring 5,000 by 1,000 feet (1,524 x 305 m).

Airlines and non-stop destinations

No airlines currently have scheduled service to the Klawock Seaplane Base.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4222788. Authority coordinates are 55.555, -133.102. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Klawock Seaplane Base” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.