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Seal Bay Seaplane Base

Seal Bay, United States

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SYB

Location

Seal Bay · AK · United States

Connectivity

1 routes · 1 destinations

Position

58.373°, -152.202°

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Remote seaplane base serving Seal Bay, Alaska.

Location

Seal Bay, United States

Seal Bay Seaplane Base (IATA/ICAO: SYB) is a small seaplane facility located at Seal Bay on Afognak Island in Alaska, United States. It serves as a point of access to this remote area of the Kodiak Archipelago, where road connections are nonexistent and aviation or marine transport is the primary means of travel. The base accommodates floatplanes and seaplanes that provide essential air taxi and charter services to residents, hunters, fishermen, and outdoor enthusiasts accessing the wilderness of Afognak Island. Given the remote character of the location, the facility is minimal in infrastructure and operates primarily to support general aviation rather than scheduled commercial service.

Getting to & from

No road transport exists at Seal Bay; all access to and from the seaplane base is by water or air.

Airlines here

No major scheduled airlines operate here; the base is served primarily by small air taxi and charter operators flying floatplanes.

Notable facts

›Located on Afognak Island, part of the Kodiak Archipelago in Alaska.
›Afognak Island is known for Sitka black-tailed deer, Kodiak brown bears, and salmon fishing.
›The seaplane base has no paved runways; operations are conducted entirely on water.
›Access to the surrounding wilderness makes it a destination for hunting and fishing charters.
›The facility shares its IATA and ICAO codes, both designated SYB.

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Air Salone

Routes

SYB → KPR2O · BNI

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Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2A/B Islander1 routes

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Seal Bay Seaplane Base is a seaplane base located in Seal Bay, in the Kodiak Island Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Seal Bay Seaplane Base is a seaplane base located in Seal Bay, in the Kodiak Island Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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