Chignik Lake Airport guide

Chignik Lake Airport (FAA A79) is a state-owned, public-use gravel airstrip serving the village of Chignik Lake on the southeast side of the Alaska Peninsula, in the Lake and Peninsula Borough. The village had 61 residents at the 2020 census. No road links it to any other community, so the airstrip is how people and freight reach it.

The airport has one gravel runway, 8/26, which is 2,800 feet long and 60 feet wide. It sits at an elevation of 50 feet, has no staff and has no passenger terminal. A dirt and gravel road of about three miles runs from the Chignik River boat landing to the airfield and ends there.

Grant Aviation flies scheduled small-aircraft service from the strip to Chignik, Chignik Lagoon, King Salmon, Perryville, Port Heiden and Ugashik Bay. In 2015 the airport recorded 452 passengers and 98,000 pounds of freight, with King Salmon the largest destination at 100 passengers. The FAA lists about 720 aircraft operations a year, roughly 69 percent air taxi and 31 percent general aviation, and no based aircraft.