Nuiqsut Airport guide

Nuiqsut Airport (ICAO PAQT, FAA identifier AQT) is a public-use airstrip on Alaska's North Slope, about 38 feet above sea level. It is the village's only year-round connection to the outside world. A seasonal ice road links the community in winter, but no all-weather road reaches it.

The airport has a single gravel runway, 5/23, measuring about 4,589 by 100 feet. It has no control tower and is unattended, so pilots use the 122.800 MHz advisory frequency and arrange prior permission before landing. FAA data recorded about 1,800 aircraft operations in the 12 months ending December 2005. Air taxi flights made up 83 percent of them, military flights 11 percent and general aviation 6 percent.

Scheduled service is flown by small commuter aircraft. Wright Air Service links Nuiqsut with Utqiagvik (Barrow) and Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay, and these two routes carried about 1,000 passengers each in the year to May 2011. The village, with 512 residents at the 2020 Census, sits on the Colville River. The Alpine oil field lies about 10 miles to the north and has its own private airstrip, which is separate from this airport.