Homer Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) east of the central business district of Homer, a town in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Facilities and aircraft

Homer Airport covers an area of 1,040 acre at an elevation of 84 feet (26 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 4/22 with a 6,701 x 150 ft (2,042 x 46 m) asphalt pavement, and a facility for floatplanes on nearby Beluga Lake. For the 12-month period ending January 1, 2006, the airport had 49,821 aircraft operations, an average of 136 per day: 46% scheduled commercial, 32% air taxi, 22% general aviation and <1% military. At that time there were 93 aircraft based at this airport: 90% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, 3% helicopter and 2% ultralight. The FAA completed a new master plan for the airport in 2006, and expansion and safety improvements are ongoing. The plan called for a new haul out area for floatplanes, a public-use helipad, a building for managing rescue and firefighting operations based at the airport, and other general improvements.

Airlines and destinations

There are also numerous sightseeing and fly-in fishing and hunting air service operations.

Statistics

Historical airline service

Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA, the successor to Woodley Airways which began operations in Alaska in 1932) was serving the airport in 1950 with Douglas DC-3 service operated daily on a roundtrip routing of Anchorage (ANC) - Homer - Kodiak, AK as well as a DC-3 flight operated four days a week on a roundtrip routing of Anchorage - Kenai, AK - Kasilof, AK - Ninilchik, AK - Homer. By 1965, Pacific Northern was operating four engine Lockheed Constellation propliners on all of its flights serving the airport with three flights operated every weekday on nonstop services to Anchorage, Kenai and Kodiak with the flight to Kenai continuing on to Anchorage. Also in 1965, Pacific Northern was offering direct connecting Constellation service twice a day from Homer via Anchorage to its Boeing 720 jetliner flights to Seattle (SEA). In 1967, Western Airlines, a major air carrier based in Los Angeles, acquired Pacific Northern and continued to serve Homer following the merger of the two airlines with Lockheed Constellation flights nonstop twice daily to both Anchorage and Kodiak as well as twice weekly Constellation service nonstop to King Salmon, AK. In 1968, Western was offering direct connecting Constellation service from Homer via Anchorage to its Boeing 720 and Boeing 720B jetliner flights from ANC to Seattle (SEA), San Francisco (SFO) and Los Angeles (LAX). Western was still serving Homer in 1970 and operated four engine Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprops into the airport at one point; however, Western then ceased serving Homer during the early 1970s.

Historical airline jet service

According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), during the late 1970s and early 1980s Wien Air Alaska operated Boeing 737-200 jet service from the airport primarily nonstop to Anchorage (ANC). The June 15, 1979 Wien system timetable lists 737 jet flights operated twice a week from Homer nonstop to both Anchorage and Kodiak, AK. Wien had previously served Homer during the mid 1970s with Fairchild F-27B turboprops but had ceased operating 737 jet service into the airport by early 1982.

Notable incidents