McKinley National Park Airport

Airport in Denali National Park and Preserve

MCL

Location of airport in Alaska

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	3,000	914	Gravel

Statistics (2005)

Aircraft operations	3,200
Based aircraft	7

Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

McKinley National Park Airport (IATA: MCL, ICAO: PAIN, FAA LID: INR, formerly 5MK) is a public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Denali Park,^[1] in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States. It is owned by the U.S. National Park Service^[1] and is located at the Denali National Park and Preserve (previously Mount McKinley National Park).

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned INR by the FAA^[1] and MCL by the IATA.^[2] The airport's ICAO identifier is PAIN.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

McKinley National Park Airport has one runway designated 16/34 with a gravel surface measuring 3,000 by 68 feet (914 x 21 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 3,200 aircraft operations, an average of 266 per month: 69% general aviation and 31% air taxi. At that time there were 7 aircraft based at this airport: 57% single-engine, 29% multi-engine and 14% helicopter.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e FAA Airport Form 5010 for INR PDF, effective 2009-07-02.
^ "MCL / PAIN - McKinley Park, Alaska (McKinley National Park Airport)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
^ "Alaskan ICAO Identifiers". Federal Aviation Administration. Archived from the original on July 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

External links

Topographic map from USGS The National Map
Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for INR
- AirNav airport information for PAIN
- ASN accident history for MCL
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations for PAIN
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for INR