Aleknagik / New Airport guide

Aleknagik New Airport (FAA identifier 5A8) is a small public-use airport about one mile east of the city of Aleknagik, in the Dillingham Census Area of southwest Alaska. Aleknagik sits at the southeast end of Aleknagik Lake, at the head of the Wood River, and the airfield is the community's air link to Dillingham and nearby villages.

The airport covers 51 acres at an elevation of about 66 feet. It has no control tower, so pilots announce their position on the common traffic frequency. There is no fuel service and no based aircraft. FAA remarks list trees on the Runway 15 approach and power lines on the Runway 33 approach.

Traffic is light and mostly air taxi and general aviation. Grant Aviation was the only carrier in the FAA's 2015 data, which counted 36 passengers and 54,000 pounds of freight. The most frequent destinations that year were Manokotak and Dillingham. PenAir once flew scheduled service from the field to Dillingham.