Buckland Airport guide

Buckland Airport (ICAO PABL, FAA BVK) is a public-use gravel airstrip one nautical mile southwest of Buckland, a village on the Buckland River in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska. It covers 184 acres at an elevation of about 31 feet. The FAA identifier BVK is not used for ticketing because IATA had already assigned it to an airport in Bolivia, so the airline code is BKC.

No road links Buckland to the rest of the state, so the airstrip is the village's connection to Kotzebue and the wider region. The single runway, 11/29, is 3,200 feet long and 75 feet wide, with medium-intensity edge lights and a visual slope indicator at each end. There is no staffed passenger terminal, and the airport has no control tower.

Bering Air flies scheduled small-aircraft service to Kotzebue and Deering. In 2015 the airport recorded 6,968 passengers and moved about 1.2 million pounds of freight. Aircraft operations were put at 4,250 for 2013, and one aircraft was based on the field. The State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities owns and maintains the airport.