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Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base
Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base (IATA: WFB, FAA: 5KE) is a seaplane base in Ketchikan, Alaska, United States. It has one runway, 3,893 ft (1,187 m) long, water. In 2025 it handled 11 thousand passengers.
Runways & airfield
Schematic · NE/W
LENGTH3,893 ft1,187 mWIDTH1,000 ft305 mSURFACEWater
Passengers per year
2015–202576K
88K
85K
59K
24K
3K
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13K
11K
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Routes
10 destinations · 1 countryYear-round10
MTMMetlakatla Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air25 km16 miHYLHollis Clark Bay Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air63 km39 miKTBThorne Bay Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air65 km40 miHYGHydaburg Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air75 km47 miCGACraig Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air94 km58 miKCCCoffman Cove Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air103 km64 miWHDHyder Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air121 km75 miWWPWhale Pass Seaplane Float Harbor FacilityUnited States · Taquan Air124 km77 miPPVPort Protection Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air163 km101 miKPBPoint Baker Seaplane BaseUnited States · Taquan Air165 km103 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WFB. From the Wikipedia article “Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base” (revision of 29 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.