White Mountain Airport guide

White Mountain Airport (ICAO PAWM, FAA WMO) is a state-owned, public-use gravel airstrip one nautical mile north of the centre of White Mountain, a small Alaska Native community on the Fish River on the Seward Peninsula. It covers 82 acres at an elevation of 267 feet. The village has no road link to Nome or the wider state, so the airstrip is its main year-round connection.

The airport has one gravel runway, 15/33, which is 3,000 feet long and 60 feet wide. There is no control tower and pilots use the common traffic advisory frequency, 122.9. The Wikipedia article describes no passenger terminal or other facilities.

Bering Air provides scheduled small-aircraft service to Nome, about 100 km away by air, and to nearby Golovin. The FAA recorded 2,516 enplanements in 2007, down 11 percent from 2,821 in 2006. More recent passenger and aircraft movement figures are not published.