Hughes Airport guide

Hughes Airport serves the village of Hughes on the Koyukuk River in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of interior Alaska. The state-owned, public-use airport sits about 1 nautical mile southwest of the village centre, at an elevation of 299 feet. No road connects Hughes to the rest of the state, so the airstrip carries residents, mail and freight.

The field has a single gravel runway, 3,380 by 100 feet, listed as 17/35 or 18/36 depending on the source. The airport is unattended and has no control tower. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Northern Region, owns it.

Wright Air Service flies scheduled service to Fairbanks, Huslia, Allakaket, Bettles and Tanana. Fairbanks is by far the main destination: between July 2023 and June 2024 it took 890 passengers, against 40 for Huslia. The FAA counted 1,480 aircraft operations in the 12 months to December 2005, of which 74 percent were air taxi. Its codes are HUS (IATA), PAHU (ICAO) and HUS (FAA).