Chevak Airport guide

Chevak Airport (ICAO PAVA, FAA VAK) is a public-use gravel airstrip about one mile north of the centre of Chevak, a Cup'ik village in the Kusilvak Census Area of western Alaska. The airport sits at an elevation of 75 feet. No road links Chevak to the rest of the state, so the airstrip carries the community's passengers, mail and freight.

The FAA lists one gravel runway, 2/20, measuring 3,220 by 75 feet with medium-intensity edge lights. The first 200 feet of runway 2 are rough, and the FAA advises a visual inspection before use. The field has no control tower, and no aircraft are based there. Wikipedia also describes an older layout with a 2,680-foot gravel runway and a 2,000-foot water landing area.

Scheduled small-aircraft service runs mainly to Bethel, the regional hub, with additional links to Hooper Bay and Scammon Bay. In 2015 the airport recorded 12,115 passengers and 1.9 million pounds of freight. Hageland carried about 67 percent of the passengers and Grant Aviation about 33 percent. Bethel accounted for roughly 4,870 of those passengers.