Kobuk Airport guide

Kobuk Airport (ICAO PAOB, FAA OBU) is a public-use gravel airstrip serving Kobuk, a village of about 190 people on the Kobuk River in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska. It covers 167 acres at an elevation of 142 feet. No road links Kobuk to the rest of the state, so the airstrip is the village's year-round connection to the outside.

The airport has a single gravel runway, 9/27, which is 4,020 feet long and 75 feet wide. It has medium-intensity edge lights and no control tower. Traffic is small-aircraft air taxi work: the airport logged about 5,000 operations in the 12 months to September 2011, roughly 13 a day.

Bering Air flies scheduled passenger service to Ambler, Kotzebue and Shungnak, and Easy Fly Express operates cargo flights. Passenger boardings were 1,176 in 2008, 1,048 in 2009 and 1,255 in 2010. There is no staffed passenger terminal.