Tin City Long Range Radar Station Airport guide

Tin City LRRS Airport (ICAO PATC, FAA TNC) is a gravel airstrip at the Tin City Long Range Radar Station on the Seward Peninsula, about 8 km southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Bering Sea coast. The nearby settlement of Tin City is abandoned and has no residents. The field sits at an elevation of 269 feet and has no control tower.

The U.S. Air Force built the airstrip in 1951 for the Tin City Air Force Station, and it carried station personnel and supplies while the site was staffed. The surveillance station closed in 1983 and the site became a Long Range Radar site in the Alaska Radar System. Today the strip gives contractors access to service equipment at the minimally staffed station.

The airport is not open to the public. Runway 16/34 is gravel, 4,700 feet long and 100 feet wide, and can take C-130 aircraft. Winter weather can make the site inaccessible. Limited charter service for military personnel and contractors runs through Bering Air. Wikipedia records 350 aircraft operations in the 12 months ending July 1980, mostly air taxi.