Buckland Airport | |
Iata: | BKC |
Icao: | PABL |
Faa: | BVK |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region |
City-Served: | Buckland, Alaska |
Elevation-F: | 31 |
Elevation-M: | 9 |
Coordinates: | 65.9817°N -161.1492°W |
Pushpin Map: | USA Alaska |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Alaska |
Pushpin Label: | BKC |
R1-Number: | 11/29 |
R1-Length-F: | 3,200 |
R1-Length-M: | 975 |
R1-Surface: | Gravel |
Stat-Year: | 2015 |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (2013) |
Stat1-Data: | 4,250 |
Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft |
Stat2-Data: | 1 |
Stat3-Header: | Passengers |
Stat3-Data: | 6,968 |
Stat4-Header: | Freight |
Stat4-Data: | 1,234,000 lbs |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Buckland Airport (; Iñupiaq: Nunatchiam Mirvia or Kaŋium Mirvia) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Buckland, a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is situated on the Buckland River.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BVK by the FAA and BKC by the IATA[2] (which assigned BVK to Huacaraje, Bolivia[3]). The airport's ICAO identifier is PABL.[4]
Buckland Airport covers an area of 184acres at an elevation of 31 feet (9 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with a gravel surface measuring 3,200 by 75 feet (975 x 23 m).
Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations. As of January 2022, Ravn has not reintroduced services.