Wales Airport guide

Wales Airport (IATA WAA, ICAO PAIW, FAA IWK) is a state-owned, public-use gravel airstrip about one nautical mile (2 km) northwest of the centre of Wales. Wales is a small village in the Nome Census Area of western Alaska, near the western tip of the Seward Peninsula. The field sits at an elevation of 22 feet above mean sea level.

The airport has a single runway, 18/36, with a gravel surface. It measures about 3,990 feet long and 75 feet wide. There is no road link between Wales and the rest of the state, so the airstrip is the village's main year-round connection to the outside world.

Bering Air flies scheduled service to Nome and Shishmaref. Ryan Air serves Brevig Mission and Shishmaref. Services of this kind use small aircraft, and schedules change with weather and season. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Northern Region, owns and operates the field. Published sources give no passenger or aircraft movement totals for the airport, and no staffed passenger terminal is recorded.