Edward G. Pitka Sr Airport guide

Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport (ICAO PAGA, FAA GAL) is a state-owned public-use airport at Galena, a Yukon River community in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of Alaska. It covers 1,250 acres at an elevation of 154 feet. Galena has no road link to the rest of Alaska, so the airport is the town's main year-round connection.

The field began as Galena Airport, a World War II military transport base that handled lend-lease aircraft bound for the Soviet Union. During the Cold War it became Galena Air Force Station, an interceptor base for patrols over western Alaska. The Air Force downsized the station in 1993, and the field now serves as a weather and emergency diversion airfield. A ski-jump takeoff ramp and arresting gear remain from that period.

Runway 8/26 is 6,000 feet long and 100 feet wide, with an asphalt surface. Runway 6/24 is a 2,600-foot gravel strip. Everts Air and Wright Air Service fly scheduled passenger service. Wright Air Service links Galena to Huslia, Kaltag, Koyukuk, Nulato and Ruby, and the busiest route is Fairbanks, with 7,180 passengers between July 2023 and June 2024. The airport handled about 19,000 aircraft operations in 2022.