Eek Airport guide

Eek Airport (ICAO PAEE, FAA EEK) is a public-use gravel airstrip west of Eek, a Yup'ik village on the Eek River in the Bethel Census Area of southwestern Alaska. No road links Eek to Bethel or the rest of the state, so the airstrip carries the community's passengers, mail and freight year-round.

The airport has one gravel runway, 17/35, about 3,242 feet long and 60 feet wide. A federally funded project moved the airport to this site from an older strip east of the village, which had a runway of 1,400 by 35 feet. There is no control tower and no staffed passenger terminal.

Grant Aviation and Yute Commuter Service fly scheduled small-aircraft service to Bethel and Quinhagak. In 2016 the airport recorded 6,461 passengers and 820,000 pounds of freight. Bethel took 2,440 of those passengers, Quinhagak 630 and Tuntutuliak 70. Aircraft operations were put at 300 for 2012, and no aircraft were based on the field in 2017.