Ruby Airport guide

Ruby Airport (ICAO PARY) serves Ruby, a small Athabaskan community on the Yukon River in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of interior Alaska. The airfield sits about one nautical mile southeast of the town's central business district, at an elevation of 658 feet. Ruby has no road link to the rest of the state, so the airport carries passengers, mail and freight.

The airport is publicly owned. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Northern Region, based in Fairbanks, owns and operates it. The FAA classes it as general aviation rather than commercial service, since it falls below the 2,500 annual boardings that commercial service requires.

There is one runway. Runway 3/21 is gravel, 4,000 feet long and 100 feet wide, with no control tower. Wright Air Service flies scheduled passenger service to Fairbanks, Galena, Huslia, Kaltag and Tanana, and Everts Air operates to Fairbanks. Light Cessna aircraft and the Cessna 208B Caravan are the usual types. FAA records show 1,476 boardings in 2023, up from 1,305 in 2022.