Platinum Airport guide

Platinum Airport (ICAO PAPM) sits on a spit at the mouth of the Small River on Goodnews Bay, in the Bethel Census Area of southwest Alaska. It is the air link for the village of Platinum, which had 55 residents at the 2020 census. The village takes its name from the platinum placer deposits found nearby in 1926, and miners were flown in from Bethel from the late 1930s.

The airfield has a single gravel runway, 14/32, with edge lights. It is unattended and has no terminal services. The field is publicly owned and listed by the FAA as a general aviation facility in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems.

Scheduled service is by small commuter operators flying to Bethel and Dillingham. Boardings are low: the FAA recorded 1,020 enplanements in 2008, up from 634 in 2007. No road connects Platinum to other communities, so most travel in and out of the village goes by air or by boat across Goodnews Bay.