Circle_City_Airport
Circle City Airport
Airport in Alaska, U.S.
Circle City Airport (IATA: IRC, ICAO: PACR, FAA LID: CRC) is a state-owned public-use airport located in Circle[1] (also known as Circle City), in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is also known as Circle City (New) Airport.[1] Scheduled commercial airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 303 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[2] 377 enplanements in 2009, and 355 in 2010.[3] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).[4]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CRC by the FAA[1] and IRC by the IATA[5] (which assigned CRC to the Santa Ana Airport in Cartago, Colombia[6]). The airport's ICAO identifier is PACR.[7]