Nelson Lagoon Airport guide

Nelson Lagoon Airport (ICAO PAOU, FAA OUL) is a state-owned, public-use gravel airstrip serving the village of Nelson Lagoon in the Aleutians East Borough of Alaska. The village sits on a narrow sand spit between the lagoon and the Bering Sea on the northern coast of the Alaska Peninsula. The 2020 census counted 41 residents. No road reaches the community, so it is accessible only by boat or plane, and the airstrip is its year-round link to the outside.

The airport lies at about 14 feet above sea level, roughly two miles east of the village. It has one runway, 8/26, which measures about 4,000 feet by 75 feet. The surface is turf and gravel, and the first 300 feet of the strip is soft. Medium-intensity edge lights mark the runway. There is no staffed passenger terminal.

Grant Aviation flies small aircraft on scheduled service between Nelson Lagoon and Cold Bay, with stops at Port Moller. Traffic is light. The FAA recorded 290 passenger boardings in 2008, and an estimated 302 aircraft operations were logged in 2005, about 25 a month. Roughly two thirds were air taxi flights and the rest general aviation.