Chalkyitsik Airport guide

Chalkyitsik Airport (ICAO PACI, FAA CIK) is a public-use gravel airstrip serving Chalkyitsik, a small Athabaskan village on the Black River in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of interior Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle. The surveyed field elevation is about 548 feet. No road connects the village to the state highway system, so the airstrip is its year-round link to Fort Yukon and Fairbanks.

The airport has one gravel and dirt runway, 4/22, measuring 4,000 by 75 feet. Runway 4 has a 500-foot displaced threshold. The strip has medium-intensity edge lighting, a lighted wind indicator and a beacon that runs from sunset to sunrise. It is unattended and has no control tower. Pilots use the common traffic frequency 122.9, and RNAV (GPS) approaches are published to both runway ends. The surface is soft when wet and its condition is not monitored, so visual inspection before landing is advised. The state clears snow in winter.

Wright Air Service flies scheduled small-aircraft service to Birch Creek, Fort Yukon and Fairbanks. The airport handled 1,341 passengers and 206,000 pounds of freight in 2015. The most recent published count of aircraft operations is 650 for the 12 months ending December 2005, most of them air taxi flights. No aircraft were based on the field. There is no passenger terminal building.