Kenai Municipal Airport
Kenai Municipal Airport
Kenai Municipal Airport (IATA: ENA, ICAO: PAEN, FAA LID: ENA) is a city-owned, public-use airport located in Kenai, a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 96,565 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 82,277 enplanements in 2009, and 86,857 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).
Location
60.571°N, 151.245°O · 30 m s. n. m. (99 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 4 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
The airport was initially constructed by the US Army under Air Navigation Site Withdrawal No. 156 in 1941 with a 5,000' runway completed by the Civil Air Patrol in 1942. The first terminal building was constructed in 1952, north of the highway spur next to the cemetery.
During the Korean War era the US Air Force maintained jet fighters at the airport and provided maintenance via an agreement with the FAA. The USAF agreement ended in 1962, but the Air Force still retains four airport-adjacent tracts of land.
In 1963 2,000 acres encompassing the airport and lands were transferred to the City of Kenai by the FAA. The current terminal was built in 1966, with some remodeling in the '80s.
In 1973 an FAA control tower was added for increased safety and to permit additional equipment to use the facility.
In 1984 commercial flights to Seattle ended. Currently only commuter flights to Anchorage are scheduled.
The last large commercial jetliner landed in March, 2014, when a massive snow storm completely closed Anchorage International causing United Airlines Flight 1425 (a Boeing 737) from Chicago to be diverted to Kenai, staying overnight to allow the pilots to complete mandatory rest.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Federal Aviation Administration, Alaska Region · Public domain · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ENA
MLA
“Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ENA. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ENA.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ENA (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{Kenai Municipal Airport (ENA)}},
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urldate = {2026-10-23},
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