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Diagram of Lake Hood Seaplane Base — Lake Hood Seaplane Base · Federal Aviation Administration, Alaskan Region · Public domain

Latest · Round-up28 SEP 20265 min read

Some airports publish runways that are really lanes of water, marked on a chart, bounded by buoys, and closed to heavy aircraft when the lake begins to freeze.

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27 SEP 2026Round-up

Landing below the sea

A few airfields sit below mean sea level — on the shore of the Dead Sea, in Death Valley, on the floor of a drained Dutch lake. Below zero, the altimeter simply reads negative.

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