Allakaket Airport guide

Allakaket Airport is a public airport in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of interior Alaska. It also carries the ICAO code PFAL and the FAA identifier 6A8. The field sits just outside the village of Allakaket on the Koyukuk River, about 190 miles northwest of Fairbanks. No road connects the village to the rest of the state, so the airstrip is its year-round link for passengers, mail and freight.

The airport is sometimes called New Allakaket Airport because it was built on a site southeast of the original airfield, which is now closed. It has a single gravel runway, 5/23, measuring 4,000 by 100 feet. No aircraft are based at the field.

Passenger traffic is small. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics counted 1,437 passengers in 2024. Wright Air Service flies scheduled routes to Bettles, Fairbanks and Hughes. Winter snowmachine trails link the village with Hughes, Bettles and Tanana, and a barge brings freight upriver about once a year.