Port Heiden Airport guide

Port Heiden Airport (ICAO PAPH, FAA PTH) is a state-owned public airport about six nautical miles northeast of Port Heiden, a village on the Alaska Peninsula in the Lake and Peninsula Borough. The field sits 95 feet above sea level and covers about 3,500 acres, far more land than its traffic needs. That size comes from its military past. It began as Fort Morrow Army Airfield during World War II, closed after the war, and later supported a Cold War radar station from 1958.

The airport has two gravel runways. Runway 5/23 is 5,000 feet long and runway 13/31 is 4,000 feet long, and both are 100 feet wide. There is no control tower. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Central Region, owns and runs the field.

Scheduled service is by small aircraft. Grant Aviation flies to King Salmon, Perryville, Chignik and nearby villages, and Peninsula Airways has also served the King Salmon route. FAA figures show 919 passenger boardings in 2008, 964 in 2009 and 1,037 in 2010. Aircraft operations were put at about 1,000 for the 12 months to December 2005, split evenly between air taxi and general aviation.