Shishmaref Airport guide

Shishmaref Airport (ICAO PASH, FAA SHH) is a state-owned, public-use airport about one nautical mile south of the central business district of Shishmaref, a village in the Nome Census Area of Alaska. The FAA classes it as a commercial service, non-primary airport. Its Inupiaq name is Qigiqtam Mizrvia.

Shishmaref sits on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait and five miles from the mainland. The airport is the village's link to the rest of the region. It has one asphalt runway, 5/23, measuring 5,000 by 70 feet, at an elevation of 12 feet. The earlier airfield lay just east of town with a north-south runway, and housing now covers much of that old strip.

Bering Air flies scheduled service to Nome and Wales. FAA data recorded 4,732 enplanements in 2007, down from 5,040 in 2006.