Fort Yukon Airport guide

Fort Yukon Airport (ICAO PFYU) serves the village of Fort Yukon in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of interior Alaska. The village sits on the north bank of the Yukon River, at its meeting with the Porcupine River, and the Arctic Circle passes through its southern edge. No road connects Fort Yukon to the state road network, so the airport is the main year-round link with Fairbanks, about 233 km to the southwest.

The airport has one gravel runway, 4/22, measuring 5,000 by 100 feet at an elevation of about 438 feet. It has no control tower and is unattended. Pilots use the common traffic advisory frequency 122.5. The State of Alaska owns it, and the FAA classes it as a public-use airport.

Wright Air Service carries most scheduled passengers, with flights to Fairbanks and to the smaller villages of Arctic Village, Birch Creek, Chalkyitsik and Venetie. Everts Air also flies to Fairbanks. Roughly 12,500 passengers used the airport in 2016, and food, mail and freight reach the village mostly by air.