Pilot Station Airport | |
Iata: | PQS |
Faa: | 0AK |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | State of Alaska DOT&PF - Northern Region |
City-Served: | Pilot Station, Alaska |
Elevation-F: | 473 |
Elevation-M: | 144 |
Coordinates: | 61.9614°N -162.9422°W |
Pushpin Map: | USA Alaska |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Alaska |
Pushpin Label: | PQS |
R1-Number: | 4/22 |
R1-Length-F: | 4000 |
R1-Length-M: | 1219 |
R1-Surface: | Gravel |
Stat-Year: | 2022 |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations |
Stat1-Data: | 700 |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Pilot Station Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Pilot Station, a city in the Kusilvak Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Pilot Station Airport covers an area of 103acres at an elevation of 305 feet (93 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 7/25 with a 2,541 x 55 ft (774 x 17 m) gravel surface. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2022, the airport had 700 aircraft operations, an average of about 58 per month with 71% of that total being air taxi operations and 29% being general aviation.
Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.