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Kenai Municipal Airport (PAEN/ENA) sits on the western shore of the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, a city-owned field that has served as a key regional hub since the Second World War. It offers a long lit asphalt runway with an ILS alongside a shorter gravel strip, and today handles a mix of scheduled commuter flights, air taxi work and general aviation.
Kenai Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use aerodrome serving the town of Kenai on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. It combines a substantial hard-surfaced main runway equipped with an ILS with a shorter gravel strip, making it usable by everything from air taxi floatplanes and light singles to commuter turboprops. For a simulator pilot it is an interesting mix of bush-Alaska character and a properly equipped instrument field, with a control tower and a layered radio environment reflecting its role as a regional gateway.
The airport lies on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, within the area worked by Anchorage Center, which is available on 125.7 MHz. Kenai has its own control tower, and traffic is coordinated locally on the tower/CTAF frequency of 121.3 MHz, with flight service available on 122.65 MHz. The field is administered by the City of Kenai and lies close to Cook Inlet on the peninsula's western side.
Kenai has two physical runways. The main runway, 02L/20R, is 7,828 to 7,549 feet long (figures vary slightly by direction) with a hard, lit surface, and carries an ILS to runway 20R, making it suitable for larger aircraft and instrument approaches. The secondary runway, 02R/20L, is a shorter 1,977-foot hard-surfaced strip, also lit, more suited to light general aviation traffic. Field elevation is 95 feet, and the airport lies at approximately 60.5733 N, 151.245 W.
Kenai's control tower and common traffic frequency operate on 121.3 MHz, with ground control on 118.75 MHz. The ATIS broadcasts on 133.35 MHz, Anchorage Center can be reached on 125.7 MHz, and flight service is available on 122.65 MHz. Additional listed frequencies include a military tower on 239.3 MHz, a military centre function on 379.1 MHz, and a miscellaneous frequency of 117.6 MHz. The main runway, 20R, is served by an ILS.
The airport's origins date to 1941, when it was established by the US Army under Air Navigation Site Withdrawal No. 156; a 5,000-foot runway was completed by the Civil Air Patrol in 1942. The first terminal building went up in 1952, north of the highway spur next to the cemetery. During the Korean War era the US Air Force based jet fighters at the field and maintained them under an agreement with the FAA that ran until 1962, though the Air Force still retains four tracts of land adjacent to the airport. In 1963 some 2,000 acres encompassing the airport were transferred from the FAA to the City of Kenai. The current terminal was built in 1966 and remodelled in the 1980s, and in 1973 an FAA control tower was added to improve safety and allow additional equipment to operate at the field. Kenai once had scheduled jet service, with Wien Air Alaska flying Boeing 737-200s to Seattle in the late 1970s and early 1980s before that service ended in 1984, and commuter turboprop service to Anchorage has continued in various forms since.
Kenai Municipal Airport remains a city-owned public-use airport handling a mix of scheduled commuter flights, air taxi operations and general aviation. Grant Aviation and Ravn Alaska (operating as Corvus Airlines) offer scheduled service to Anchorage's Ted Stevens International Airport. The airport has 61 based aircraft, the large majority single-engine types, and sees around 110 aircraft operations a day, dominated by air taxi and general aviation movements with a smaller share of military and scheduled commercial traffic.