Pilot Point Airport guide

Pilot Point Airport (ICAO PAPN, FAA PNP) is a state-owned, public-use airstrip serving Pilot Point, a small community on the Alaska Peninsula in the Lake and Peninsula Borough. It sits at 57 feet above sea level near the shore of Ugashik Bay, on the Bristol Bay side of the peninsula. The community has no road link to the rest of the state, so the airstrip is its main connection to the outside.

The airport has one gravel runway, 7/25, which is 3,280 feet long and 75 feet wide. It replaced an older strip whose runway was 3,100 feet by 50 feet. There is no control tower, and pilots use the common traffic advisory frequency of 122.9.

Grant Aviation flies scheduled small-aircraft service to King Salmon, Port Heiden and Ugashik Bay. The airport recorded 738 enplanements in 2008, up 9 percent from 678 in 2007. For the 12 months ending 31 December 2005 it logged 5,300 aircraft operations, about 14 a day, of which roughly 66 percent were general aviation and 34 percent air taxi. Check current schedules with the airline before travelling, as service on this route changes.