Ralph M Calhoun Memorial Airport guide

Ralph M Calhoun Memorial Airport (ICAO PATA, FAA TAL) is a public-use gravel airstrip about one nautical mile west of the centre of Tanana, a village at the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana rivers in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of Alaska. The field covers 1,650 acres at an elevation of 236 feet. No road connects Tanana to the state road network, so the airstrip is the village's main year-round link to Fairbanks.

The airport has one runway, 7/25, with a gravel surface 4,400 feet long. It has no control tower. The FAA classes it as a non-primary commercial service airport, and the State of Alaska owns it.

Wright Air Service flies scheduled small-aircraft service from Tanana to Fairbanks, Hughes, Huslia and Ruby. Between July 2023 and June 2024 Wright carried about 3,100 passengers, all of the airport's scheduled traffic. Fairbanks drew about 1,500 of them, with Huslia, Galena, Hughes and Ruby far behind. The airport recorded 3,100 aircraft operations in the 12 months to September 2009: 55 percent general aviation, 43 percent air taxi and 2 percent military.