Aniak Airport guide

Aniak Airport (ICAO PANI, FAA ANI) is a public-use airport serving Aniak, a Kuskokwim River community in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska. The State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Central Region, owns it. Aniak has no road link to other communities, so the airport is the main year-round connection for the town and for villages such as Chuathbaluk, Kalskag and Crooked Creek. Bethel lies about 148 km to the southwest and Anchorage about 510 km to the east.

The airport has one asphalt runway, 11/29, about 6,000 feet long. A water landing area, 5W/23W, measures 3,000 by 400 feet on the river and takes seaplanes. There is no control tower, and Anchorage Center handles approach and departure services. Fuel is sold in 100LL and Jet-A grades.

Ryan Air flies the scheduled passenger service. Everts Air Cargo and Northern Air Cargo carry freight. The FAA counted 25,440 enplanements in 2015, which put Aniak among the busier commercial service airports in the region. Aircraft operations were put at 2,600 for 2014, with 18 aircraft based on the field.