Elim Airport guide

Elim Airport (ICAO PFEL, FAA ELI) is a public-use gravel airstrip about 3 nautical miles southwest of Elim, a Native village on the Norton Sound coast of the Nome Census Area in western Alaska. It covers 181 acres at an elevation of 162 feet. No road links Elim to the rest of the state, so the airstrip is the village's year-round connection to Nome and its neighbours.

The airport has one gravel runway. Runway 1/19 is 3,401 feet long and 60 feet wide. There is no control tower and no staffed passenger terminal. The State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities owns the field.

Bering Air flies scheduled small-aircraft service to Nome and Golovin. In 2016 Hageland Aviation also carried passengers here, and Bering Air handled about 80 percent of the traffic. Nome was the busiest destination, with 1,610 passengers that year, followed by Unalakleet and Koyuk. In 2018 the airport recorded 4,298 passengers and 732,000 pounds of freight. No aircraft were based on the field.