Venetie Airport guide

Venetie Airport (ICAO PAVE) serves the Gwich'in Athabascan village of Venetie on the Chandalar River in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of interior Alaska. The village had 205 residents at the 2020 census. No road connects it to the rest of the state, so the airstrip carries the community's passengers, mail and supplies.

The airport has one gravel runway, 4/22, measuring 4,000 by 75 feet at an elevation of 574 feet. It sits about one mile east of the village. There is no control tower, and the field is unattended. Pilots use the common traffic advisory frequency 122.900 and are asked to call the airport manager before landing. Fuel, transient storage and repair services are not available.

The Venetie Tribal Government owns the airport. Scheduled passenger and cargo service connects Venetie with Fairbanks, Fort Yukon and Arctic Village. Wright Air Service and Everts Air are the carriers listed for the route. The FAA counted 2,523 passenger boardings in 2010 and classes the field as general aviation. Most of the traffic is air taxi flying, and cargo handling is the main service the airport offers.