Ambler Airport guide

Ambler Airport (ICAO PAFM, FAA AFM) is a public-use gravel airstrip one nautical mile north of the centre of Ambler, a village on the Kobuk River in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska. It covers 272 acres at a surveyed elevation of about 293 feet. No road links Ambler to the rest of the state, so the airstrip is the community's main year-round connection.

The airport has two gravel runways. Runway 1/19 is 4,000 feet long and 75 feet wide, and runway 10/28 is 2,400 feet long and 60 feet wide. There is no staffed passenger terminal.

Bering Air and Hageland Aviation fly scheduled small-aircraft service to regional destinations, including Kotzebue, Shungnak, Selawik, Kobuk and Noorvik. In 2015 the airport recorded 3,727 passengers and moved 986,000 pounds of freight. Bering Air carried about 52 percent of the passengers and Hageland about 48 percent. Aircraft operations were put at 5,000 for 2014, and one aircraft was based on the field.