Nenana Municipal Airport Nenana, Alaska, USA
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Nenana Municipal Airport (ICAO: PANN, FAA: ENN) is a city-owned public-use airport located one mile (1.6 km) south of the central business district of Nenana, a city in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Nenana Municipal Airport covers 1,030 acres (420 ha) which contains two runways: 4L/22R with a 4,600 x 100 ft (1,402 x 30 m) asphalt pavement and 4R/22L with a 2,520 x 60 ft (768 x 18 m) turf surface. It also has a seaplane landing area designated 4W/22W that measures 3,601 x 100 ft (1,098 x 30 m).
In 1925, the dog team and driver captured the attention of the nation. A feared epidemic of diphtheria caught the town of Nome without enough serum to inoculate the community. A wire for help went out but plans to send an airplane from Fairbanks were thwarted by weather. It was decided to use a relay of dog teams from Nenana on the Alaska Railroad, down the Yukon River Trail to the Iditarod Trail, and into Nome. Twenty mushers carried the serum the 674 miles in 127-1/2 hours.
Residents of Nenana sponsor the Nenana Ice Classic, where entrants buy a ticket and pick the date and time to the closest minute in April or May when the winter ice on the Tanana River breaks. This lottery began in 1917 when a group of surveyors working for the Alaska Railroad whiled the time they spent waiting for the river to open and boats with supplies to reach them by forming a betting pool. Each year a large striped tripod is placed on the frozen river. The winner is whoever comes closest to guessing when the ice beneath it will weaken to the point where it falls through to the water beneath. Interest in the pool continued and spread through Alaska. This lottery has paid out nearly $10 million in prize money, with the winning pool in recent years being near $300,000.
Additional Remarks
- SHALLOW WATER NEAR FLOAT POND RAMP AREA.
- WX CAMERA AVBL ON INTERNET AT HTTP://AKWEATHERCAMS.FAA.GOV
It is possible to drive an amphibious plane from the taxiway onto the water and back again. I recommend turning off crash detection for the transition from water to land.
***** IMPORTANT ***** IMPORTANT *****
For FSX only
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PANN - Nenana Municipal Airport updated to match data from Google Earth maps.
Changes include:
-Added parking
-Added buildings and roadways
-Adjusted nearby lakes and river
-Reconfigured water runway
-Added static airplanes and floating planes
-Flattened area where river became a hill
*****INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS*****
Copy the *.bgl files into your \Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery\SCENERY directory or other directory if you have one.
Author: Tony Vienonen
E-mail: vienonen@sbcglobal.net
December 29, 2011
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Copyright and distribution
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-This airport is released as freeware; you are not allowed to include it in any commercial package.
-You are not allowed to re-upload it to any other website that charges for download.
Disclaimer
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-Since this package is freeware, it is offered as "it is" so no official support will be given and the installation of it requires a basic Knowledge on how to manually install add-ons in FSX.
-I am not responsible for any damage you could cause to your FSX installation or your system (it is nearly impossible unless the file is altered from someone else); use of this file is at your own risk.
