Kwethluk Airport guide

Kwethluk Airport (ICAO PFKW, FAA KWT) is a public-use gravel airstrip about one mile south-southwest of Kwethluk, a Yup'ik village in the Bethel Census Area of western Alaska. The village sits on the Kwethluk River in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and the airport is its main link to Bethel, about 12 miles to the west-southwest. The airport is owned by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Central Region. It was built on a new site about half a mile from the earlier airstrip, which had a 1,750-foot runway and a seaplane landing area.

The airport has one gravel runway, 18/36, which is 3,198 feet long and 75 feet wide, at an elevation of about 25 feet. It has medium-intensity edge lights, REILs and PAPIs on both ends, a lighted wind indicator and a rotating beacon, all switched on by radio on the common traffic frequency, 122.9. An AWOS-3P weather station broadcasts on 120.0. Published runway data notes heaves, ruts and erosion channels along the surface, and brush near the edge lights. There is no control tower.

The FAA counted 2,923 passenger boardings in 2007, up from 2,329 in 2006.