Lake Hood Strip

Lake Hood Strip
IATA: none – ICAO: PALH – FAA LID: LHD
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	State of Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities - Central Region
Location	Anchorage, Alaska
Elevation AMSL	73 ft / 22 m
Coordinates	61°10′54″N 149°57′59″W / 61.18167°N 149.96639°W / 61.18167; -149.96639Coordinates: 61°10′54″N 149°57′59″W / 61.18167°N 149.96639°W / 61.18167; -149.96639
Map
Lake Hood Strip
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 2,200 671 Gravel
Statistics
Based aircraft 437
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Lake Hood Strip (ICAO: PALH, FAA LID: LHD) is a state-owned public-use general aviation airstrip adjacent to the Lake Hood Seaplane Base (ICAO: PALH, FAA LID: LHD), three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska.^[1] The airstrip and seaplane base are located at Lake Hood, just east of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (IATA: ANC, ICAO: PANC, FAA LID: ANC).^[2] The gravel strip airport's previous code of (FAA LID: Z41) has been decommissioned and combined with (ICAO: PALH, FAA LID: LHD) as another landing surface.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Lake Hood Strip has one runway (14/32) ^[4] a gravel surface measuring 2,200 x 75 ft. (671 x 23 m). There are 437 aircraft based at this airport: 97% single-engine and 3% multi-engine.^[1]

References

1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Master Record for LHD (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
2. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: ANC / PANC - Anchorage, Alaska
3. ↑ "Alaska Supplement digital - Airport/Facility Directory" (PDF). FAA. Retrieved 2014-05-21. 
4. ↑ "Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport - General Aviation". State of Alaska. Retrieved 2012-12-17. 

External links

• FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for Z41
  • AirNav airport information for Z41
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for Z41