McKinley National Park Airport

McKinley National Park Airport
IATA: MCL ICAO: PAIN FAA LID: INR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	U.S. National Park Service
Serves	McKinley Park, Alaska
Location	Denali National Park and Preserve
Elevation AMSL	1,720 ft / 524 m
Coordinates	63°43′59″N 148°54′40″W / 63.73306°N 148.91111°W
Map
MCL Location of airport in Alaska
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 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 McKinley 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

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