Point Hope Airport guide

Point Hope Airport (ICAO PAPO) serves the Iñupiat village of Point Hope on the Chukchi Sea coast of northwest Alaska. The village sits at the tip of the Point Hope peninsula, well above the Arctic Circle, and no road connects it to the rest of the state. The airstrip is the year-round way in and out for residents, mail, freight and supplies.

The airport has one asphalt runway, 4,000 by 75 feet. It is a state-owned public-use field, listed by the FAA as unattended, with no fuel sales and no tower. Pilots use the common traffic advisory frequency 122.8. The airport lies about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the village centre.

Scheduled passenger service is a commuter link to Kotzebue, which has the regional jet connections to Anchorage. Bering Air is the carrier most often listed on the route, and it has also flown to Kivalina and Cape Lisburne. The FAA counted 4,052 passenger enplanements here in 2023, up from 3,572 in 2022. Cargo handling is the only listed airport service.